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The Hartmann Report

SCOTUS RULES THAT ROE VS WADE IS DEAD

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Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Callers respond with outrage and opposition. The ruling, unthinkable just a few years ago, was the culmination of decades of efforts by abortion opponents, made possible by three appointees of former President Donald Trump. Justice Clarence Thomas, part of the majority, urged colleagues to overturn other high court rulings protecting same-sex marriage, gay sex and the use of contraceptives.

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And greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers and

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peace freedom in the American way. It's a grim day.

0:58.2

The Supreme Court just overturned the right to abortion.

1:02.2

Clarence Thomas in his concurring opinion

1:05.6

said that all of the cases where substantive due process is the

1:14.0

the lever used by the court to make the decision.

1:18.2

It should also be overturned. That would include, and he specifically named three of them.

1:24.3

That would include Obergofel, which legalized gay marriage, Lawrence v. Texas, which legalized

1:31.7

sex between people the same gender and Griswold. Griswold is Griswold v. Connecticut in the 1965 case

1:40.0

that legalized birth control. Now the other, the fourth famous case that used substantive

1:46.5

due process and the right of privacy to decide it, which Clarence Thomas did not mention,

1:53.1

was loving the Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage.

1:58.4

And I think the reason Thomas didn't mention that is fairly obvious, but it would fall also

2:04.4

under this logic. So this is huge. This is absolutely friggin huge.

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