Comments by "guido toth" (@guidototh6091) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

  1. He was wrong then and the Republican appointees to the Court are wrong now. The Roe court got it right. A decision whether or not to have an abortion is up to the individual, not government.
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  2.  @davidlarue39  By taking away a woman's right to decide and handing it to the states the Supreme Court has determined that government has more power than the individual.
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  3.  @rs232killer  Why do you trust politicians more than individuals when it comes to such a personal decision ?
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  4.  @aoisora1445  You have expressed your opinion which is your right. Others can live their lives differently with different opinions. Roe v Wade respected these differences and said government cannot totally criminalize abortion. I'm neither against or for abortion. I believe everyone must decide for themselves and if a woman wants to involve the father, in most cases that is great. But the Dobbs decision takes away the individual's right and hands it over to politicians. So now in Texas if you get raped, you can't get an abortion.
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  5. The Supreme Court took away a personal right and handed it to state legislators. First time this has been done in American history.
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  6. Republicans think that government should decide about whether a woman gets to have an abortion or not, and not the woman herself.
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  7.  @jaimeosbourn3616  The Court said that a woman has no federal constitutional right to have an abortion which means that states can, will and already have made it a crime and banned it.
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  8.  @jakenbake9878  The 9th Amendment says the Bill of Rights is not an exclusive list. A lot of rights aren't mentioned in the Constitution, such as the right to send your child to a private school, marry, have children etc. All of these have been recognized under the 14th Amendment due process clause and the 9th Amendments.
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  9. Putin tried to annex it. He failed.
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  10.  @jamessherman3925  Actually these days extreme right wingers are ditching federalism when it suits them.
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  11.  Richard  Women should and usually do involve the father in the decision. But it is there right under the law not to for the simple reason it is their body. Even Alito's shameful decision doesn't change that. Republicans think that abortion should be up to government. Roe left that decision to individuals. I have more faith in individuals than government. That is the best democratic process.
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  12.  @jakenbake9878  The Alito court, unlike every single Supreme Court since 1973, found that the right to control her own body during pregnancy was not a fundamental right and therefore her views were trumped by the state. Birth control is likely to be next or whatever else the Alito court decides is not "fundamental."
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  13.  @jakenbake9878  Oh I didn't ignore your comment and I have done a lot of research on the right of privacy. It isn't complicated at all. In 1973 Supreme Court using tests going back to the 1920s, determined that abortion IS a fundamental right under the 14th Amendment and 9th Amendments. Then Alito court said no, after 49 years. The Alito court said government should decide abortion, not individuals.
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  14.  @DutchStar  That is the judicial cover they give to their religiously backed ruling but the Supreme Court has held for 50 years that it is a constitutional right. Now the court is just a political and religious body. In a few years a different court can over rule this decision.
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  15.  @juniorjohnson9509  Go back and read Roe. The Constitution doesn't specifically state that a person has a right to purchase birth control but the Court found that to be a right 60 years ago.
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  16.  @apacheworrier3776  For 60 years the American legal system has recognized that a State have very limited ability to interfere with the right of the privacy of its residents. Today the Supreme Court showed that his right is not a right.
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  17.  @jaimeosbourn3616  It's not just that I agree with it, or that the majority of Americans agree with it, or that a majority of all justices serving on the Supreme Court from 1973 to 2022 agree with it, but it is sound Constitutional law.
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  18.  @jaimeosbourn3616  I never claimed I was an expert in constitutional law. You told me I wasn't competent to give an expert opinion and I told you the basis of my abilities. That and the fact that I've been a lawyer for decades and have argued in many courts regarding constitutional issues including in the US Supreme Court. I think it is very odd that some people think the difficult decision whether or not to have an abortion is not up to the women or the people involved, but to politicians.
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  19.  @Mayamax3  That simply isn't true. Read the 9th Amendment and the 14th Amendment.
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  20. From the 1940s until recently, the Court viewed most of the Bill of Rights expansively in order to protect individual rights. The Alito/Thomas Court is narrowing them in many instances and allowing far more government regulation over people.
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  21.  Nancy Rocks  If all of our rights are God given, than God gave people the right to make decisions about having children free of state interference. Ginsburg fully supported the right of women to have abortions. Her criticism of the case was its timing and the fact that it wasn't decided under the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause.
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  22.  @UnicornPosse  The framers of the Constitution never meant the Bill of Rights to be exclusive. They even said that. They literally said that in the 9th Amendment. An Amendment that makes right wing religious zealots angry but it's there.
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  23. Well said.
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  24. George Soros never killed anyone. He was a 13 year old Jewish boy hiding from the Nazis.
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  25.  @olayinkaoladimeji  Abortion isn't murder under American law and never has been treated that way.
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  26.  @cult_of_odin  It is in the same place where the right of a woman to buy contraceptives is. The 14th and 9th Amendments.
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  27.  @Dustin030888  They allowed states to outlaw abortion and as of today, it is illegal in many states. There was a right to abortion, but this court has taken it away.
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  28.  @joebama4222  Funny how the Catholic church says fetuses are human but doesn't give them funerals when they are miscarried.
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  29.  @strawdemindset  Yes it is a right. It still is and will be again when the Court changes personnel.
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  30.  Richard  A woman shouldn't have to move in the United States to exercise a fundamental right.
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  31.  Richard  I've known several, including one who got a cancer diagnosis the same month she found out she was pregnant. She elected to terminate her pregnancy on the advice of her doctors. Another woman I knew found out that the fetus was would severely misformed and would not survive even to full term. She too got an abortion. These women, like every woman, has the right to make this decision. Not the government. A woman can consult who ever she wants but she should never be forced to consult with a politician or a police officer.
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  32. Simple: worry about yourself and stay out of other peoples' business.
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  33. Roe and Casey left the decision up to individuals. Dobbs took away that right and handed it to government. I trust individuals more than government.
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  34. No one forced him to join the SS and serve in a death camp.
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  35. Religious extremists are coming after contraceptives too. Clarence Thomas is holding the door open for them.
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  36.  @gingerbread7113  You worry about your body and other people can worry about their own. See how that works?
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  37. I love finding comments like yours and forwarding them on to pro-choice organizations. Your comment helps make the case for why abortion should never be the hands of government and why every women should decide for herself.
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  38.  @e-man1634  Stefan is very single.
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  39. He volunteered for the SS. And he is already dead.
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  40.  @TrenbologneSandwich  So you like Nazis and hate Jewish people.
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  41.  @andrewrai5752  He stated it perfectly, actually.
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  42. The Alito decision took away abortion decisions from individuals and handed them politicians.
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  43.  @nmiller4085  Interestingly, Alito in his opinion spends a lot of time talking about how, in his view, abortion is unpopular, despite the fact that most Americans didn't want Roe to be overturned.
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  44.  @nmiller4085  Notice how Alito misstates history in order to get there. He downplays the common law, fails to mention that women didn't have the right to vote pre 1920 and therefore couldn't oppose these anti abortion statutes, fails to mention that these criminal statues were rarely enforced, fails to mention that states basically allowed abortion by looking the other way, fails to mention that abortion was more common in the 1930s than now, downplays the fact states were moving to decriminalize it pre Roe and then of course totally ignores any acceptance of Roe after it was passed. For the first time in history, the Court has taken away a personal right. Alito knew the consequence of his actions and that abortion would soon be criminalized in many red states. He has argued against abortion rights since he was a young lawyer. He is smart. He had a plan and he achieved it. Now the next court can overturn Dobbs since Alito even downplayed stare decisis.
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  45. Actually abortion was not criminalized in the US in the late 1800s when the Constituion was enacted. The criminal statutes came later.
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  46.  @theloaner4378  Soros never helped anyone load people on trains to any death camp and you are grossly twisting Soros' words. He said it was the greatest period of his life because his father was helping fellow Jewish people and fooling the Nazis.
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  47.  @DailyThoughtswithKyle  I'm very familiar with Roe, you aren't "breaking" anything to me. The Court recognized that prior to viability the individual's right was far more important than a state's rights. Republicans now think that the state's right is completely dominant, so much so that they can criminalize abortion from the very moment of conception forward.
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  48.  @DailyThoughtswithKyle  How are any of my statements not entirely truthful? I stand by the accuracy of everything I have written.
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  49.  @beantrader4723  You follow your religion and whatever god you obey and stay out of other peoples' lives. Not everyone shares your views. Worry about yourself.
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  50.  @guppers8064  The 10 year old who was raped in Ohio and got pregnant and couldn't get an abortion, how was she acting irresponsibly ?
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