The US Supreme Court has on Friday abolished the
constitutional right to abortion more than 50 years
after it was established, leaving individual states
to decide. It is expected that there will be abortion
bans in about half of the states.

Will Australia follow suit?

Your thoughts please.

Already posted in 'Logic at last' started by Is Mise.

The "right" to an abortion does not exist in the Constitution, is against the statute law of the majority of states the majority of the time, does not exist in common law, and exists, or rather existed, only in the decision of the Supreme Court that decided Roe v Wade.

It had no other basis than mere power. They are hoist with their own petard. The latest decision of the Court means that, according to their own theory of rights, the right to an abortion does not exist.

But don't worry and don't fret on behalf of women wanting to kill their own offspring in their own womb by tearing it apart limb from limb without anaesthetic. They will only be slightly inconvenienced. Abortion has not been made illegal: the authority to decide has merely been returned to where the Constitution allocates it: to the people and their elected representatives. Any power not specifically granted to the feds is explicitly reserved to the people and the states, end of story. No need for a claque of extremist fundamentalists to impose their arbitrary opinions on the entire populace of the republic

What I found extremely disturbing was the sobbing and hysteria of mainly young women who apparently want the right to kill babies.

Hi Foxy,
It might be a case of going from one extreme to the other.
I need to read up on what these changes now actually mean.

"US Supreme Court Abolishes Constitutional Right to Abortion"

Completely wrong. The ruling merely passes the setting of the rules surrounding abortion back to the states and it's citizen's, where it always should have been.