NOTE:
Anti-abortion statements of the author were deleted to make this a fact-based article, rather than an opinion piece. I needed to post an article to explain why I don't intend to discuss the subject of abortion on this blog. The main reason is that repealing Roe v. Wade won't change the number of US abortions much. But hysterical, and soon to be violent, leftists, are not bright enough to realize that. This is a SCOTUS ruling that significantly reduces central government power -- that's is more than crazed power hungry leftists can tolerate. I WILL report on violence related to this subject, which the pro-leftist biases mass media will most likely call "peaceful protests".
Ye Editor
"America Is About To Explode With Emotion, But ... "overturning Roe v. Wade ... alone won’t dramatically change the number of abortions that are performed in the United States. In most blue states, the abortion industry will continue to operate normally, and in most red states the anti-abortion laws that will be implemented will not cover most abortions.
Democrats in Congress would like to “codify Roe v. Wade” on the federal level, but in this article I am going to assume that they don’t have the votes in the U.S. Senate to either get rid of the filibuster or to pass such a law with the filibuster in place.
For example, the following comes from NBC News…
Abortion rights would be up to the states if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Two-dozen states and territories would ban it immediately, and 13 have “trigger laws” waiting for the ruling.
What you just read is false. Abortion will not be completely banned in two dozen states if Roe is overturned. Whoever wrote that doesn’t know what they are talking about.
... The states of
Alabama,
Arizona,
Arkansas,
Michigan,
Mississippi,
Oklahoma,
Texas,
West Virginia
Wisconsin
have abortion laws on their books that existed before Roe v. Wade was decided. Needless to say, not all of those states would enforce those old laws if Roe is overturned. In particular, I know that the Democratic governors of Michigan and Wisconsin are quite determined not to enforce those old laws.
There is another group of states that have passed “trigger laws” that will go into effect after Roe v. Wade is overturned. These are the states in that category:
Arkansas,
Idaho,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Mississippi,
Missouri,
North
Dakota,
Oklahoma,
South Dakota,
Tennessee,
Texas,
Utah
Wyoming.
... the states of
Arkansas,
Mississippi,
Oklahoma
Texas
are in both groups.
There are other states that have passed laws that partially restrict abortion in recent years, and most of those laws have been struck down by the courts. But if Roe is overturned, those laws would theoretically become enforceable.
But none of the state laws that have been passed since Roe v. Wade was decided are designed to totally ban abortion. Some would restrict legal abortion to the first six weeks, while other laws have deadlines of eight, fifteen or twenty weeks.
Here is how that breaks down by state…
Banned abortion after six weeks:
Georgia,
Idaho,
Iowa,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Mississippi,
North Dakota,
Ohio,
Oklahoma,
South Carolina,
Tennessee and
Texas
Abortions banned after eight weeks:
Missouri
Fifteen weeks:
Florida,
Kentucky,
Louisiana and
Mississippi
Twenty weeks:
Mississippi,
Montana,
Nebraska and
North Carolina
Some states appear multiple times, and that is because more than one law that restricts abortion was passed in those particular states in recent years.
I know that all of this can be confusing, but the bottom line is that a bunch of laws that restrict abortion will go into effect in a number of red states once Roe is overturned.
However, these laws are not going to cover most of the abortions that happen in those states. According to the CDC, 66 percent of all abortions happen during the first eight weeks of pregnancy. And approximately 90 percent of all abortions occur within the first 13 weeks.
Tight now most polls show that Americans want to keep Roe by about a two to one margin. ... A Washington Post-ABC News poll published Tuesday found that a majority of Americans support the Supreme Court upholding Roe v. Wade. The poll, conducted last week, found 54% of Americans support upholding Roe, while 28% support overturning it. The poll found 18% had no opinion.
(NOTE: I included the paragraph on polls only to contradict it. The poll should have asked about abortions in the first, second and third trimesters. Abortions in the first trimester, which I favor, are very different from abortions in the third trimester, which I oppose. The polls are designed to get a desired pro-abortion response, not the detailed opinions on abortion that we should want to know. Biased questions are why I rarely present polling data on my blogs. Not that abortion laws, or climate science, should be based on opinion polls. Ye Editor)
In the last 24 hours, there have been lots of very angry leftists on social media that have been openly threatening to start burning things down. Here is one example.
And now there is this. In a draft circulated opinion NOT A FINAL ONE BUT IT MIGHT AS WELL BE, the Supreme Court will vote to overrule Roe. REMINDER: the Democratic House, Senate and Presidency could stop this with ONE LAW, TODAY. BURN IT ALL DOWN.
https://t.co/7po0wpCv8v
— Elizabeth C. McLaughlin (she/her)
(@ECMcLaughlin)
May 3, 2022
And here is another.
I feel sick about the roe v Wade thing.
We were warned this would happen.
Burn it all to the ground
kayla
(@SP00KYSPlCE)
May 3, 2022
You can see even more examples
of what I am talking about:
We are going to witness a national temper tantrum of epic proportions, but most of those that are upset actually live in blue states where access to abortion will continue on as normal. And even in the reddest of the red states most abortions that happen now will still be permitted.
... Since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973,
more than 60 million babies have been “terminated”.
... but at this point only a small minority
of Americans actually want Roe to be overturned."
