After Roe v. Wade, What Next?

There's a good point you've touched on here. If a fetus is a legal "person" then the census would be required to start counting them, since they have a duty to count "all persons within the United States".

The idea that birth control could be taken away is absolutely insane. I take it because I have extreme endometriosis that leaves me basically bedridden if I don't take it. If this happens, I'm telling my doctor to immediately perform a hysterectomy before they ban those too. I've spoken to other women with endo who also have said the same. This situation is off the wall bonkers.

That reading at the end, about other rights being in jeopardy, made me think: "Wow, it's almost as if linking acquired fundamental rights to simple judicial cases that can be rolled back by a sufficiently dedicated court is a BAD idea."

I heard of a story in Texas, where a lone woman was pulled over for driving in the carpool lane. The officer pulled her over, and when he pointed out that she was driving in the carpool lane without another passenger in the car, she point out that she was pregnant and according to the law, a fetus in her belly was a person, therefore: it was legal for her to use the carpool lane. Make the law work for you folks.

I’m probably projecting… but I love Devin’s ability to objectively lay out the facts and implications of this decision while still conveying disappointment in that decision without resorting to hyperbole.

"The lone rationale for what the majority does today is that the right to elect an abortion is not 'deeply rooted in history'." If historical precedent is the only thing we're gonna look at to determine what is ethical, then I got some bad news for you about our most 'deeply rooted history.'

As a Registered Nurse in the ICU I'll say this: the presence of a heartbeat doesn't mean anything if the patient is brain dead and all the breathing of the patient is done by a ventilator.

"You can't know until you try." This about sums up our legal system right now.

Without context, the fact that we have a “Texas Bounty Hunter Law” and that we have to think of how laws will be effected by it sounds like the most anarchy-dystopian thing ever

Got a “what if” question: If a law/laws came to pass that grants personhood to a fertilized egg/zygote/embryo/fetus, could that open up potential laws allowing mothers to open paternity suits compelling fathers to be tested and then be legally obligated to be financially responsible for prenatal care and preparations for the birth?

A few years ago I had a miscarriage that, unfortunately, resulted in what is technically considered abortion. I very much wanted this baby, planned or not. The state I live in now has recently made that exact procedure illegal. If my miscarriage had happened today, I would have basically been left to die. Thankfully our bordering states has kept abortions legal so if worst came to worst, I could have rushed over there and they ideally would have saved my life.

Wait so if a fetus has "full personhood" wouldn't it be illegal to jail pregnant women? You would be illegally imprisoning that innocent "person"

"outcome-driven" is a terrifying euphemism for "bending the interpretation to fit the agenda".

I had a pharmacist deny my script before on religious grounds because of a missed miscarriage. It was as infuriating as it was humiliating. I still can't go past that pharmacy without feeling like utter trash. No one should ever have to go through that, ever, and no pharmacist should have the right to be high and mighty on their morality because theu don't know someone's situation. Their job is to make sure our medications don't contradict each other. Now we have doctors terrified in states, telling those of us capable of carrying children that we need to get off certain meds because it can cause fetal abnormalities or miscarriages. It's a terrifying situation, honestly.

It's hilarious that people are even pretending to give credence to the lie about "this decision doesn't affect other rights" when they openly stated that they plan to go after same-sex marriage and birth control next. They told you the plan and people are still pretending that it's unclear what they're going to do.

So with fetal personhood, would it be plausible to then also require child support upon conception? And collecting on insurance policies if a miscarriage were to occur? Just thinking, if we go that far we best go all the way.

With the "bounty" laws... would that theoretically allow someone to sue Delta Airlines for selling someone a ticket to travel for abortion?

Waiting for the IRS clusterf*** since fetuses should count as full dependents. A class action lawsuit for all newborn court ordered child support to tack on an extra 9 months would be fun too.

As a Canadian, and avid armchair lawyer that sometimes doesn't understand the various laws in the US, I thank you for taking the time to explain these with concise refererences.

From the Washington Post: "A pregnant Texas woman who was ticketed for driving in the HOV lane suggested that  being overturned by the Supreme Court means that her fetus counted as a passenger and that she should not have been cited"   I saw that police responded that traffic enforement did not recognize a fetus as a person even if the penal code did.  We're all wondering where that is going to go.