It's convenient for them to keep around, because they don't need to obey the spirit of the ruling (abortion access) instead it actually frees them up to implement all the anti-abortion laws they want, so long as it isn't outlawed by name.
Someone said it in another thread, and I'm an unoriginal parrot. But yeah, I agree with the sentiment -- it has been entrenched for long enough that they will gut it in every single other way possible, but never actually overturn.
Also we've never had free and fair elections. Also the general rule of law has been a joke for the past century.
They might not overturn Roe v. Wade right away, just because it's such a lightning rod boogeyman for riling up evangelicals and TradCaths.
Same-sex marriage is probably gone before the end of the first year of Trump's second term, though. But hey, RUSSIA.
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It's convenient for them to keep around, because they don't need to obey the spirit of the ruling (abortion access) instead it actually frees them up to implement all the anti-abortion laws they want, so long as it isn't outlawed by name.
Someone said it in another thread, and I'm an unoriginal parrot. But yeah, I agree with the sentiment -- it has been entrenched for long enough that they will gut it in every single other way possible, but never actually overturn.