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Jakyl25 posted...

Isnt Roe still basically informally dead even with Roberts attempt to thread the needle opinion? Like what the fuck sort of nuanced position is states can restrict access to abortions based on whatever reason they want but they cannot ban them?

Yeah, Roberts's play was to basically kill Roe without technically killing it to avoid the headline of "Supreme Court overturns Roe."

He'd basically erode the right to abortion further by saying, "Okay, so pre-viability bans aren't automatically unconstitutional" and leave it super vague as to what the fuck even would be. Clearly 15 weeks would be okay given the Mississippi law getting the explicit nod. It'd basically leave it vague and to be challenged case-by-case. The majority opinion actually calls him out on this vagueness while the dissent says they think he's wrong just not as catastrophically wrong as the other 5.

In practice I expect they'd just keep whittling down the right by continuously okaying increasingly restrictive laws while technically never saying it was entirely overturned.