Legislative Blowback

 Being no longer concerned about upsetting clients, I signed some petitions. I posted Greg Pence's response. Let me share the rest.

From State Representative Sue Errington:

Thank you for writing me in support of keeping abortion safe and legal in Indiana. I agree with you and will do all in my power to defend reproductive rights at the Statehouse.  Like other medical decisions, abortion is a deeply personal and complex decision. It’s a decision best made by a woman and her doctor, not the Indiana General Assembly.

Outlawing abortion won’t stop abortion – it will only make it less safe. I have advocated for increased access to contraceptives and requiring medically accurate, age-appropriate sexual education at the Statehouse. But the Republican legislators who want to ban abortion have not taken a single step to advance those policies, which we know have the power to reduce abortion rates the most.

Again, thank you for writing to me. I welcome your opinion on this or other issues important to you.

Sincerely,

Sue

From U S. Senator Young:

 Thank you for contacting me regarding the Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.  I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue.

          In 2018, the Mississippi Legislature passed a law that prohibits abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy, except in the case of a medical emergency or severe fetal abnormality.  Jackson Women’s Health Organization, an abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi, challenged the law in a federal district court on the grounds that it violates the viability standard established via Supreme Court precedent.  The district court granted the clinic’s motion for summary judgment and blocked Mississippi from enforcing the law, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit subsequently agreed with its decision.

 In June 2020, the State of Mississippi petitioned the Supreme Court to hear the case, and in May 2021, the Court agreed to consider a single question regarding whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.  I joined over 200 of my colleagues in Congress in filing an amicus brief supporting the State of Mississippi in the case and urging the Court to uphold the state’s law.  After hearing oral arguments on the case on December 1, the Court officially decided to uphold the Mississippi law on June 24, 2022, and, in doing so, overturned the ruling made in Roe v. Wade in 1973.

  For nearly half a century, Roe wrested the power to determine how best to protect innocent life away from the American people and gave it to a body of unelected and unaccountable officials.  By overturning the precedent set by this case, the Court has corrected a historic injustice. Rather than ban abortion nationwide, the ruling rendered in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization restored to the American people the opportunity to decide their own laws when it comes to protecting life and protecting women through their own state elected officials.

 Again, thank you for contacting me.  It is an honor to represent you in the United States Senate.

Sincerely,

Okay, I am still not buying how the Roe court was "a body of unelected and unaccountable officials" but not the Dobbs court. Could the difference be Senator Young prefers the cutting off rights to the establishing of rights?

Figure out which one you would get your vote.

I have not read the cases. I work too much, am too tired, have other things to do. My understanding of the abortion & handgun & greenhouse gas cases is that they are poorly reasoned justifications for imposing a political ideology. We are back to the court that FDR wanted to pack.

sch 6/30/22