Comments by "" (@charlesvan13) on "Why Roe v Wade Was Overturned" video.

"The judges have too much power." They're handing the issue to the legislative branches of government. The conservative justices are relinquishing power.
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People are mistaken thinking that a court case is somehow settled law. Dred Scott v Sandford 1857 ruled that a slave who escaped to a free state legally had to be returned to his "owner". If it's a bad ruling, then it's always open to being overturned. That only lasted until 1865 when 13th Amendment. But if it had been an old ruling it wouldn't be sacrosanct. Judges make bad rulings to appease political faction. If they had a reasonable ruling, the Democrats would have accused them fomenting civil war.
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The 15 week limit in the Mississippi law is in line with other, secular, countries. France is 14 weeks. I think the UK may be later and other European countries are sometime soon after the first trimester. Or more precisely, any country that's not too Catholic, eg Poland.
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@araaraaura1887 They'd have a valid point if the court ruled abortion unconstitutional. But they just ruled that it's a state's issue.
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@joeyginise6051 In some US states, eg Oregon, Alaska, it is legal up until birth. Basically no legal restrictions. I don't know what doctors will actually do.
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@ollehkacb The Constitution didn't have the word "slavery" in it, until the 13 amendment. It referred to in in the 3/5 th compromise referring to "other persons" Currently the Democrats want to count illegal aliens, for representatives and electors, so that's not surprising.
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@orrorsaness5942 Conversely the present WH confirms the the political establishment can be stupider and more incompetent than I imagined. Remember "The adults are finally back in charge." And it's just one abject failure after another, Afghanistan, inflation, shortages of crucial goods, tanking stock market, spiking crime, border falling apart. They haven't done a single thing that wasn't counter productive.
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@CountArtha It is if the criminal law is unconstitutional. But there's no reason why states can't regulate abortion. It may actually be unconstitutional for the federal government to. Eg. they passed a constitutional amendment for prohibition, because they figured a nation ban wouldn't be constitutional.
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