Because americans are morally bankrupt

And for those naive souls who think there is any solution on the horizon, keep in mind a few simple facts.

this was a supreme court decision.

SC decisions aren't typically overturned, Dobbs was a rare dodo

It will take a constitutional amendment.

Alito wrote that abortion is not a right.

The SC decided abortion is not a right

that means the only way for abortion to be a right is through an amendment to the constitution.

Congress cannot regulate abortion since it is not a right.

BTW the Roberts court has been one of the most radical courts in our nation's history frequently legislating from the bench, ignoring basic judicial process, creating judicial doctrine (major questions doctrine) out of whole clothe and even outright lying in their decisions.

At this point the only way to reinstate it is for democrats to win large majorities in both chambers of Congress and pass legislation protecting abortions rights for women and protecting doctors from frivolous lawsuits.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack

There is no way to do that.

Congress can regulate interstate commerce

Congress can decide how federal money can be spent

Congress can protect people's rights

NONE of that allows "... legislation protecting abortions rights for women and protecting doctors from frivolous lawsuits."

I would love to be wrong, but I'm not

Here are the powers of Congress (from the Constitution)

Section 8

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;"And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Point to a power that would allow them to regulate abortions, and especially to affirm the right to access to an abortion.

There are certainly ways for them to LIMIT access to abortions through interstate commerce, but to defend abortion? NOPE

There IS the 14th Amendment which states the following:

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;

The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

See that is amendment that gives Congress power

BUT

Alito's decision in Dobbs specifically states that abortion is not a privilege of the citizens of the US

Thus not a right thus not something Congress can PROTECT

Shit Alito said we do not have a right to privacy, but he graciously didn't attack the other privacy rights like interracial or same sex marriage, gay sex and contraceptives

Yet

He didn't attack them because abortion was unique because it destroys what the Court considers a potential fetal life

talk about legislating from the bench. Fetal life is not recognized in the constitution, full stop

He mentally gymasticed himself by saying you don't have privacy in this one instance because of a made up thing "potential fetal life"

he jujitsued himself back to saying for some reason privacy, though not a right, does protect interracial or same sex marriage, gay sex and contraceptives

because an unenumerated right (a right not explicitly written in the Constitution) must be "deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition"

Yet fails to acknowledge that there was not right to inter racial marriage in our history

He relied on a 14th century judge who believed in witches to arrive at that conclusion by the way

So, again, take this decision in conjunction with the Piggy immunity decision.

Presidents are above the law, and you do not have right to bodily autonomy.

This literally undoes the magna carta