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Hillary Clinton Says Decision to Overturn Roe v Wade Will ‘Live in Infamy’ and is a ‘Step Backward’ for Women’s Rights

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The issue before the Supreme Court today was whether Mississippi’s fetal heartbeat law was constitutional. The Supreme Court takes special pride in both adhering to precedent (“stare decisis”) and also deciding cases on the most narrow grounds possible in order that the law grows organically and not in leaps and bounds. Both doctrines were discarded today. It cannot be emphasized enough that the SCOTUS had to “work” to overrule Roe in this particular case. It could have just declared Mississippi’s law constitutional.

Same with Citizens United, if one senses a pattern, the actual issue wasn’t before the court (when the SCOTUS really wants to get to something, it’s ready to toss out inconveniences).

The decision was also the very first time that a constitutional right granted by the Supreme Court, one not found in the text of the Constitution, was withdrawn. There are many such rights, not just with procreation and love, but also the right to an attorney in a criminal trial, Miranda Rights (which were also cut back in this term) and many more.

It is bad enough that women became second-class citizens. (It has been said that if men could get pregnant, an abortion would be a sacrament in many churches). But the decision even went further. Once one Constitutional right and precedent is struck down, the next comes more easily, and more easily after that.

Hillary Clinton sensed all this. Hillary was not only a fantastic lawyer and fantastic politician, but she is also a “seer,” she has been right on so many things that when she speaks on these matters, it is best to listen. This is chilling:

Having a child, women’s rights generally, gay rights, even criminal rights, they’re all on the table now with this super-majority SCOTUS. “Infamy,” because Hillary knows they’re not done.

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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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