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03.05.2022 - 20:21 / etcanada.com
Busy Philipps and Whoopi Goldberg were among celebrities reacting after a leaked draft suggested the U.S. Supreme Court had voted to overturn 1973’s Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide.
Politico posted the draft Monday, with Justice Alito writing: “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.”
He said in the document, “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts has since confirmed the leaked draft opinion was an authentic document, Global reported.
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Busy Philipps urged people to protest following the leak, writing on Instagram: “Show up. Be loud. The person who risked everything to leak that document did so with the knowledge that IT IS NOT YET DONE. It’s a sham of a court put in place to do this exact thing and why?
“Because they’re afraid of what TRUE EQUALITY means for their own power. This has been in motion for most of my life, this slow crank back in time but I will be damned if I allow it to happen without a fight. Overturning Roe and Casey is against the WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
“It has NOTHING to do with BABIES and EVERYTHING to do with white supremacy and power hungry politicians attempting to keep systems of oppression in place. (And I don’t have time or energy to explain to you why if you don’t understand- DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH) Be angry. Be loud. Be outraged. But most of all SHOW THE F**K UP.”
Whoopi Goldberg delivered a powerful speech about human rights on Tuesday’s “The View”, telling viewers: “Women in this country lived forever with it being illegal. Okay? Women, when they decide something is not
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Halsey screened a video about Roe v. Wade during the first show on their ‘Love And Power’ tour in Florida on Tuesday (May 17).The pop star has always been vocal about their support of abortion rights, especially in light of a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court that recently suggested the landmark 1973 ruling would be overturned, threatening the status of legal abortion in the US.“Abortion is one of the safest medical procedures performed today, more than 99 per cent safe in fact,” read a title screen in a video of protest footage that played behind Halsey as they performed ‘Nightmare’. “Nearly 8 in 10 Americans oppose overturning Roe v.
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Glamour, on Thursday, May 12. It was reported this month that the Supreme Court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, at which point more than half of all U.S.
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Addie Morfoot ContributorTia Lessin and Emma Pildes were devastated to learn that the Supreme Court may soon overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion.
Last Week Tonight show.Last week, the draft decision was made public – though draft opinions can be subject to multiple drafts and vote-trading, so the court’s decision is not final. However, if the overturning goes through, it would make the legality of abortion in the US the decision of each individual state, and not federal law.During last night’s (May 8) edition of his show, Oliver noted data that showed 25 per cent of women have had an abortion, six in 10 of who are already mothers.The presenter said: “Some who get abortions are survivors of rape or incest, others might need one for medical reasons, but also just to be clear, some will be seeking an abortion because they fucking want one, and this is very much about them, too.
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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaPaxton Smith electrified abortion rights advocates when she used her 2021 high school graduation speech to decry wide-ranging abortion restrictions that were being pushed by Texas lawmakers. The valedictorian’s remarks, in which she told the audience that “there is a war on my body and a war on my rights,” quickly went viral, making Smith one of the youngest faces and most influential voices of the movement.Now, the conflict that Smith described has entered a new phase after Politico broke the news this week that the Supreme Court has prepared a majority draft opinion striking down Roe v.
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Roe v. Wade. In a , Politico obtained a draft of the majority decision, which Chief Justice John Roberts .The decision has not yet gone into effect.
“I am absolutely horrified by what the majority of Supreme Court of the United States plans to do to women’s rights in this country,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said Tuesday.
Politico published a leaked draft opinion, written by Samuel Alito, that at least in its current form unequivocally and unambiguously overturns the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in America.
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