Pelosi on SCOTUS, GOP Overturning Roe and What’s Next for Them
overturned Roe v. Wade.The California congresswoman described the actions of the conservative court — which ended 50 years of constitutional protections for a women’s right to an abortion — as “eviscerating Americans’ rights and endangering their health and safety.” Pelosi, who later described herself as “personally overwhelmed” by the ruling, said the conservative justices’ decision advances their “dark, extreme goal of ripping away women’s right to make their own reproductive health decisions” and she lamented how young women in America will now have fewer rights than their mothers and even grandmothers.Pelosi warned that this was only the beginning for SCOTUS, which is currently packed with six far-right justices, three of whom Donald Trump appointed.
Pelosi warned that contraception, in-vitro fertilization, and family planning were all in the high court’s sights. The Speaker made clear that Republican politicians also wanted to go further and aim to criminalize abortion nationwide.“In the Congress, be aware of this, the [Republicans are] plotting a nationwide abortion ban; they cannot be allowed to have a majority in Congress to do that,” Pelosi said.The Speaker did not bring up the issue of marriage equality or transgender rights, something that many advocates feel is threatened by the ruling overturning Roe.
Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling, which overturned Roe, stated that issues codifying LGBTQ+ rights like Lawrence v.
Texas and Obergefell v. Hodges should be reconsidered in light of this ruling.The ruling is “an insult, a slap in the face to women to make their own judgments about their reproductive freedom.
