The Kansas City Star reports, ‘No’ prevails: Kansas votes to protect abortion rights in state constitution The right to an abortion will remain in the Kansas Constitution. In the first ballot test of abortion rights in a post-Roe America, Kansas voters turned out in historic numbers to overwhelmingly reject a constitutional amendment that would have … Read more
The media villagers breathlessly reported this morning that a bipartisan bill has been introduced to guarantee abortion rights in all 50 states. See, the New York Times for example, Bipartisan Abortion-Rights Bill Sets Up a Midterm Debate: A bipartisan group of senators released a bill on Monday that would create a federal baseline for abortion … Read more
A must read editorial opinion from the medical journal The Lancet, Why Roe v. Wade must be defended: “Abortion presents a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply conflicting views.” So begins a draft opinion by Associate Justice Samuel Alito, leaked from the US Supreme Court on May 2, 2022. If confirmed, this judgement … Read more
Above: Democratic women House members protest for abortion rights ahead of the Senate vote. The Senate held a “show vote” today to put senators on the record about codifying the abortion rights recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade (1973) in light of the leaked draft opinion of Justice Samuel Alito in … Read more
Above: Justce Samuel Alito; Sir Matthew Hale. Most Americans have probably never heard of Sir Matthew Hale, an English jurist who was born in 1609. But Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization cites him a half-dozen times throughout his draft as proof that abortion bans are an indispensable part … Read more