Roe v. Wade Futures
 

Anyone care to bet against an overturn of Roe v. Wade?

My thesis goes like this:

1. The ReligiousRight (hereafter "RR") has been mobilized and activated in support of the Republican Party. This dates back to Pat Robertson's 1980 Prez run to establish the Christian Coalition.

2. Said RR has since delivered said political goods.

3. The people running things in the present day are well served by severely diminished privacy rights.

4. Roe v. Wade is entirely predicated on an implied right to privacy found to be in the Constitution.

5. OK, now let's think like a statesman. Let us execute on our Plan. First, we must install the Chief Justice capable of getting this done. So it is written, so it is Done.

6. Next. A teenager comes of working age and decides to NOT file income tax reporting, asserting her implied privacy right, which she asserts extends to total financial privacy, the most fundamental kind of privacy Right.

7. The case comes to the Supreme Court by a series of 'miraculous' jurisprudence events.

8. The case is decided. The votes are in. The Court decides there is no such implied privacy right implicit in the Constitution; the case is thrown out.

9. By implication Roe v. Wade is invalidated.

10. The RR gets the payback. The powers get expanded rights to strip Americans of all privacy. Everyone is happy.

This looks like a fait accompli. Comments and analysis please?

Re: Roe v. Wade Futures
 

[ QUOTE ]
Anyone care to bet against an overturn of Roe v. Wade?

[/ QUOTE ]

Well, Roe's effectively dead in favor of Casey. But I know what you mean, so let's continue.

[ QUOTE ]

My thesis goes like this:

1. The ReligiousRight (hereafter "RR") has been mobilized and activated in support of the Republican Party. This dates back to Pat Robertson's 1980 Prez run to establish the Christian Coalition.

2. Said RR has since delivered said political goods.

3. The people running things in the present day are well served by severely diminished privacy rights.

[/ QUOTE ]

Ok so far.

[ QUOTE ]
4. Roe v. Wade is entirely predicated on an implied right to privacy found to be in the Constitution.


[/ QUOTE ]

ummmmm...not exactly, but let's not quibble.

[ QUOTE ]

5. OK, now let's think like a statesman. Let us execute on our Plan. First, we must install the Chief Justice capable of getting this done. So it is written, so it is Done.

[/ QUOTE ]

OK.

[ QUOTE ]
6. Next. A teenager comes of working age and decides to NOT file income tax reporting, asserting her implied privacy right, which she asserts extends to total financial privacy, the most fundamental kind of privacy Right.

7. The case comes to the Supreme Court by a series of 'miraculous' jurisprudence events.

8. The case is decided. The votes are in. The Court decides there is no such implied privacy right implicit in the Constitution; the case is thrown out.

9. By implication Roe v. Wade is invalidated.


[/ QUOTE ]

No way, no how. And no need. It will be a frontal assault.

[ QUOTE ]

10. The RR gets the payback. The powers get expanded rights to strip Americans of all privacy. Everyone is happy.


[/ QUOTE ]

They will get there by other means.

Re: Roe v. Wade Futures
 

My premise is that it is precisely the privacy deterioration that will inform, motivate and ultimately drive The Process.

The motivational drive to do this has absolutely nothing to do with any judgement of the morality of Roe v. Wade. It's simply about Power. So I see this path as the one preferred by those with the power.

The power dividend derived thereby is simply too valuable to forsake for some other way of getting it Done. And how convenient.