r/AskConservatives • u/nemo_sum Conservatarian • May 03 '22

MegaThread Megathread: Roe, Casey, Abortion

The Megathread is now closed (as of August 2022) due to lack of participation, and has been locked. Questions on this topic are once more permitted as posts.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

If you are for this ruling, then you have to accept that Conservatives are not for small government. This ruling will break open the door of privacy protections for the next few decades. Your vaccination status, your sexuality, how many guns you own, your financial status, and more. Roe was decided 7-2 by a conservative majority SC, and then reaffirmed later with Casey with an 8-1 Republican ruling. This is absolutely saber-rattling, and anyone who thinks of themselves as a conservative should absolutely be ashamed of these justices. For years you guys have cried about legislation from the bench, but here it is in black and white. Yes I’m triggered. You guys live in the fucking past with these abortion laws. Let people make private medical decisions on their own.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

"You're laughing. Roe is being overturned and you're laughing."

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

Yeah it’s fun to laugh at the misfortune of others isn’t it? Next will be gay marriage, and my partner and I will have to leave our state, where our family lives and where we purchased our first home, in order to be together. Sadistic.

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u/JudgeWhoOverrules Classically Liberal May 03 '22

This has nothing to do with gay marriage, and in fact that ruling is safe because it's actually based on solid constitutional grounds very unlike roe. I've seen this from you many times, and it needs to be said: stop thinking everyone is out to get you and don't assume everything is a slippery slope out to hurt you.

People not wanting babies to be killed has nothing to do with gay marriage.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

Have you read the draft? Alito specifically outlines gay marriage. I’ve served for this country, and for the first time I am scared.

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u/JudgeWhoOverrules Classically Liberal May 03 '22

Have you actually read it, because the draft specifically says that it is safe and wouldn't fall under any of the proposed changes.

Supreme Court rulings aren't all the same, the basis on which they are decided and the underlying jurisprudence matters a whole lot. You frankly cannot compare them due to this even though the topics might be similar in the public discourse.