2:00PM Water Cooler 5/04/2022 | naked capitalism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : For pro-choice senators like Sen. Collins, it is essential to have some answer that would support a claim that, despite seemingly antagonistic judicial philosophical views, a nominee would not likely overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey."
52% : Casting himself as a fighter against the nation's elites, Mr. Vance ran as a Trump-style pugilist and outsider who railed against the threats of drugs, Democrats and illegal immigration, while thoroughly backpedaling from his past criticisms of the former president....
51% : Abortion, he said, is not, and rejected arguments that it is essential for privacy and bodily autonomy reasons."
48% : He noted that the Biden administration had relied upon decisions like Lawrence v. Texas (the right to engage in private, consensual sexual acts) and Obergefell v. Hodges (the right to marry a person of the same sex) in defending Roe. 'These attempts to justify abortion through appeals to a broader right to autonomy and to define one's 'concept of existence' prove too much,' Alito wrote.
45% : In fact, legislation could protect abortion permanently, but their party has refused to do that.
44% : But critics of the draft decision will take cold comfort in Alito's words attempting to wall off abortion from everything else They believe that if Alito's opinion is ultimately rendered, it will represent an opening salvo in a push to target other rights grounded in privacy and liberty.
40% : "In the draft, Alito said that what "sharply distinguishes" Roe, and the 1992 follow-up Casey v. Planned Parenthood, from those other cases is that abortion destroys 'potential life.'
40% : Exit polls in that race found that Youngkin did better among the 54 percent of Virginia voters who fall in the middle of the spectrum on the issue of abortion.
39% : None of the other decisions cited by Roe and Casey, involved the critical moral question posed by abortion,' he said.
39% : "Abortion is among a number of fundamental rights that the court over many decades recognized at least in part as what are called "substantive" due process liberties, including contraception in 1965, interracial marriage in 1967 and same-sex marriage in 2015.
39% : "Democratic Party Betrayal, Abortion, and the Supreme Court"
34% : Appendix A is "contains statutes criminalizing abortion at all stages of pregnancy in the States existing in 1868.
22% : In the 2021 gubernatorial contest, Democrat Terry McAuliffe spent more than $2 million on ads like this one accusing his GOP opponent, Glenn Youngkin of wanting to ban abortion and defund Planned Parenthood.
22% : Youngkin took 37 percent of the vote among those who want abortion to be "legal in most cases," while McAuliffe took just 12 percent of the vote among those who want abortion to be 'illegal in most cases.'

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