Repeal of Roe v. Wade Would Have No Impact on Illinois

As I pointed out last night, giving control of abortion regulation to the states would not change anything in Illinois.

We already have a “Katie bar the door” approach.

Now comes the Chicago Tribune saying the same thing:


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Repeal of Roe v. Wade Would Have No Impact on Illinois — 24 Comments

  1. It will in the sense that any Democrats running, as well as JB, will tout that they will make sure that Illinois remains a state where women can still get abortions.

    Voters who don’t know any better will be scared and more inclined to show up at the polls and vote Democratic especially for governor.

    Also Illinois could make it easier to establish and maintain abortion clinics to serve people coming to Illinois from surrounding states, all of which will go into automatic or nearly automatic abortion bans as soon as the SCOTUS decision comes out as all but Indiana already have laws in place that will kick in the minute that Roe is overturned. Indiana will follow suit with new legislation almost immediately.

    Congress could pass a law either codifying Roe or one banning abortions federally depending on who controls it, who is the President, and whether or not the filibuster is allowed to stand. (Bernie is saying it should be stricken so a bill can be passed to codify Roe).

    So the argument will be that the Senate needs to abolish the filibuster rule right now to pass legislation to codify Roe and protect the right to choose nationally. I don’t know if Mancin and Sinema will be able to stand against that. Collins has already expressed her displeasure at the SCOTUS picks she approved so it is possible and she and Murkowski could be on board with that.

    So that would be the pitch in the contested congressional district races such as IL 17, etc. Ie. Keep the House Democratic to protect womens’ rights.

    60% of the public supports abortion rights in some form and even more of the women.

    The decision in Roe jump started the religious revival movement of the 70’s and subsequent political movements culminating in Trump.

    The overturning of Roe could have the opposite effect now.

    The GOP may have dug its own grave here.

  2. Yes, we will still be an abortion on demand/abortion tourism state until you vote out the scum that allows this!

  3. Lani: That is not going to happen. Illinois is a solid Blue state and this SCOTUS decision is going to make it even bluer.

    The handwriting has been on the wall for the GOP for some time but it keeps coming back like a bad penny.

    Demographic changes will bring about its demise as a national party at some point in the not too distant future.

    Trump gave it a new lease on life but he is at the end of his run.

    Likewise inflation, gas prices, and a milktoast President have invigorated it temporarily.

    But the bottom line is that a party based on less educated, old white men does not have legs for the longer run.

    The overturn of Roe v Wade will light the Democratic base, which has been somnabulent since the 2020 election, on fire.

    You guys brought this on yourselves.

  4. DEMOCRATS love death more than they love life.

    They want total power over life and death, truly evil just as the Nazi’s were.

    Gov. Fatberg is leading this state to destruction.

    May he and his ilk burn in Hell for all eternity.

  5. Politicians have forever been reaching to conflate one action with another soon to come which scares a particular constituency.

    It’s for the weak minded to believe such nonsense as a domino effect of anything in the gridlocked Senate.

    This leak is an internal thought written for the supremes to work on together.

    No true opinion or decision has been handed down.

    The Congress has abdicated its duty on many issues hiding behind the Supremes skirts to avoid angering their home constituencies by actually writing law and casting a vote.

    All the Supreme Court would be doing would be pushing the duty of writing Law to the branch duly elected and Constitutionally mandated to write that Law.

    The clutching of pearls is a show for the idiots who don’t have any idea the overreach of precedents like Roe being used as settled Law.

    Just write a Law you useless Congressional denizens or begone.

    Your sole usefulness is what you’re whining about being incapable of performing.

    If that’s the case then the Citizens should claw back your pay, confiscate your campaign funds, forensically audit you to claw back every bit of real property bought with the stolen funds you never earned while in Congress and then you should be tarred and feathered.

    Whether a law written to federally codify the murder of American babies should be written one way or another is for another day.

    Today Congress should just recognize their uselessness when they abdicate issues like abortion and immigration to a Judicial Branch ill equipped and Constitutionally incapable of writing durable federal law.

    As far as winning or losing an election on this one issue it’s cute Democrats think codified baby murder is a winning issue for them nationally.

    The thought any one constituency is so one dimensional they’ll all line up behind this issue and vote Democrat is laughable.

    Republicans need only beat the drum of the Democrat recalcitrance to vote the hard issues and those easily manipulated Democrat voters will be as angry with their representatives as they are with the issue.

    Democrats eat their own.

    Proven over and over.

    Can’t wait for the General to see who’s message wins.

  6. https://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1225a4AbortionAttitudes.pdf

    An overwhelming majority of Americans want to preserve abortion rights.

    I know it is a difficult issue and I have concerns myself. I am not an “abortion on demand” person by any stretch. I think there should be some reasonable limits, such as no abortions after around 20 weeks except where the life of the mother or fetus is at stake.

    However, to now have a majority of the Supreme Court, appointed as a result of hypocritical manipulation by Mitch McConnell of Court vacancies, do something which a majority of the public does not want, will bite the GOP in the butt come November.

    This ruling, if it comes to pass, will also jeopardize a number of other actions such as gay marriage and the right of people to engage in consensual sex in the privacy of their own homes.

    In fact, there will no longer be any recognized right to privacy at all beyond the search and seizure provisions of the Fourth Amendment.

    “Conservatives” have gone too far with this one and it may well cost them the momentum that they had going into the midterms and beyond.

  7. The majority of abortions nowadays are done with pills that minors can get w/o an Rx or parental consent!

    Thanks to the rotten Democrats.

  8. The prices at Comet Pizza are about to experience inflation adjustments.

  9. Ignoring the useless troll above me, I found a sane person posting to NWH LTE. Maybe the trolls could heed this woman’s advice.
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    Letter: Critical thinking

    As I study what’s happening in our country, it has occurred to me that critical thinking is in short supply. What do I mean by “critical thinking”? I mean getting your news from multiple sources and investigating what you are presented to determine the facts, versus swallowing hook, line and sinker what one person or media outlet tells you. Investigate the sources of the information. Can it be verified?

    Critical thinking involves the following skills: observation, analysis, interpretation, reflection, evaluation, inference, explanation, problem solving and decision making. Yes, it’s a lot of work, but it’s worth it. Many people called each other “sheep” over the last few years. If you aren’t a critical thinker, then the description of “sheep” is likely accurate. When I looked up the meaning of critical thinking to gain some clarity, the example was: “Professors often find it difficult to encourage critical thinking amongst their students.”

    I can tell you this is true as I am a college professor, but it isn’t just students. People want to be told what to think or what they need to know. It is the easy way out. Everyone needs to be taught not what to think, but how to think. That’s what I really try to teach.

    When it comes time to vote or make decisions about the future of our country, don’t be a sheep. Don’t just assume what someone says is true. Be a critical thinker. The future of our country depends on it.

    Mary H

    Richmond

  10. I have a feeling that Mary H doesn’t have any belief in Q, Comet Pizza or other such nonsense. Don’t see where it is you share her critical thinking skills.

  11. There is no “codifying Roe”. I thought you were a lawyer? Roe v. Wade is only about the Fourteenth Amendment right to privacy and is not explicitly about abortion.

    Abortion is not constitutionally protected, nor should it be.

    H.R.3755 passed the House last year but was shut down in the Senate.

    But that’s not “Roe v. Wade”.

    It’s a gendered act that was written by a party that can’t even define what a woman is.

    No laws should be gendered if you believe in actual equality, but most Democrat males are limp-wristed losers who want to treat women as victims when they make stupid mistakes.

  12. I have a feeling you are the douchebag we know you are. Thank God the appraisal business has you.

  13. Also, BS, your stats about an “overwhelming majority” are made up and lame Democrats keep pushing them when clearly people don’t even understand what the Roe v. Wade verdict actually meant when they parrot dumb terms like “codify Roe”.

  14. An interesting coincidence…the release of 2000 Mules happening happening this week.

    Nah.

    Just a coincidence.

  15. Congress can pass legislation to do what Roe did.

    The basis of this draft opinion is that the right to abortion does not exist in the Constitution so the courts can’t enforce it.

    However, Congress could pass a bill containing the same sorts of provisions and Schumer has announced that he will introduce something in the Senate.

    Unfortunately it will die there but they will be able to put Senators on Record for or against.

  16. Per Illinois government agency, IDPH, there were 46,243 abortions in Illinois in 2020.

  17. It will have zero effect on anyone else either. This is a total sham to cover up for the fact that there will be no births forthcoming from all the women they have sterilized. Wake up, people.

    Ms Trumpion? At least you can get here. I am totally locked out of this site for days and weeks at a time.

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