'Trump did this’: Supreme Court blocks Biden emergency abortion mandate in Texas

Oh you're trying so hard to build a strawman! How adorable.

Roe was established case law. Reproductive rights were settled. Blaming Democrats when the actions of Republicans baselessly dismissed it is moronic.

Logically, the answer would have to be that Democrats lack the power to preserve it. Which happens to be true because:

1. Ordinary legislation would not be sufficient to overturn state laws regarding abortion due to the 10th Amendment, and even if it was the 2/3 Republican court would overturn it anyway.
2. A constitutional amendment would require a 2/3 majority that Democrats will not have in this lifetime.

Cool story, bro (or sis, or comrade, or whatever, idk you). Was it the Democrats 40 years ago that discarded ages-old decorum, stared down stare decicis, and said "nah, that ain't for me," to then threw out established case law, casting doubt on the legitimacy of 1/3 of the co-equal branches of government? Oh, no? It wasn't? It was a group of far-right so-called "Christians" put on the SCOTUS by Republicans?

Yeah, that's certainly how I remember it happening, and, you know, objectively true, so thanks anyway.

I mean ig, big blunder on their part for sure, but not exactly the people who are murdering women by banning emergency abortions so what's your point

"The thing the Republicans did was terrible, but Democrats did not do enough to prevent it, so I'm going to support the Republicans!"

Make it make sense.

Which one, the one that directly revoked women's rights or the one that did nothing to prevent it from happening?

Look, republicans suck ass, it’s true. But if Dems had codified Roe into law either time they had the supermajority (two chances in the last 20 years), then the corrupt SC wouldn’t have been able to do jack shit. If dems had any integrity, they would shoulder a significant amount of the blame for this issue, because they had their chance and deemed it “not a priority.”

So what I'm hearing is if Democrats had codified it, Republicans would have come along and got it struck down. But to fix the problem we need to elect more Democrats to get it codified?

No one else sees the circular reasoning behind this?

If you really wanted to stop houses from burning down you'd build a fire house on every block and make the Dems pay for it.

It's the ones claiming to be firefighters

The ACA which should be noted was desperately needed at the time unlike Roe which was known to be at risk but not nearly as immediate.

I’m not happy Roe is dead. The fact is though that without a constitutional amendment Roe was always on borrowed time with the constant attacks on it, and I don’t believe that there is any time after the issuance of the bill of rights that an amendment protecting abortion would work, and in the form of the bill of rights it would’ve had to be a robust privacy amendment that just happened to protect abortion.

They used that two-ish week window to pass the ACA.

The ACA was passed in March 2010. Obama took office more than a year earlier. The bill to codify Roe was written in 2003, all that it needed was a vote, which Pelosi refused.

Your revisionist history is wrong.

Several members of Congress thought a law was good enough, Obama thought it was good enough when he promised to sign the freedom of choice act on day one in office. Then 3 months later said it was no longer a legislative priority.

When the side that failed to prevent something had the power to prevent it, they are to equally to blame