# \#roe\_vs\_wade\_abortion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/tag/roe-vs-wade-abortion/79.md [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) --- ## [The Supreme Court isn't done: Watch and see a lot of individual rights fall](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-supreme-court-isnt-done-watch-and-see-a-lot-of-individual-rights-fall/966843)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 292\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-supreme-court-isnt-done-watch-and-see-a-lot-of-individual-rights-fall/966843 "2025-12-03T19:43:16Z")
While we try to absorb the abortion decision and how things are going to change as a result of that, make sure you are paying attention to the other things that the Supreme Court is getting ready to burn are many federal… --- ## [Abortion and shield laws](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-and-shield-laws/1011632)
**Author:** [@TeroSunbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeroSunbear)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 16, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-and-shield-laws/1011632 "2024-12-16T13:39:05Z")
NY doctor sued by Texas for sending abortion pills to Texas. NY and other states protect their doctors with so called shield laws. --- ## [Arizona abortion ban accomplished](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arizona-abortion-ban-accomplished/972110)
**Author:** [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [May 2, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arizona-abortion-ban-accomplished/972110 "2024-05-02T16:28:05Z")
Because of course we want 1864 laws to govern our right to control our own bodies. It wasn’t hard to notice that this law predates the year (1919) women got the right to vote. I can’t decide if I am stunned or furious… --- ## [Legal merits and flaws of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-merits-and-flaws-of-dobbs-v-jackson-womens-health-organization/967201)
**Author:** [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [December 15, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-merits-and-flaws-of-dobbs-v-jackson-womens-health-organization/967201 "2023-12-15T16:48:07Z")
This is the thread to discuss the legal merits and flaws of the Dobbs decision. Question before the Court: Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional. Full docket here: Docket … --- ## [Enforcing Leaving the State for an Abortion, Other Post-Roe Abortion Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enforcing-leaving-the-state-for-an-abortion-other-post-roe-abortion-questions/964068)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 88\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enforcing-leaving-the-state-for-an-abortion-other-post-roe-abortion-questions/964068 "2023-11-20T14:18:08Z")
So some states are planning to enact laws that make it a crime to leave the state for an abortion. I don’t see how they can enforce that: short of parking cops at the border and then being on the lookout for women of chi… --- ## [No lie is too stupid or outrageous (Trump on abortion)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-lie-is-too-stupid-or-outrageous-trump-on-abortion/983183)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-lie-is-too-stupid-or-outrageous-trump-on-abortion/983183 "2023-04-27T19:29:06Z")
Talking about PAB making the assertion that abortion lovers are so enthusiastic that babies are born, and then murdered. It’s just one more deranged thing this asshole says that would sink any other candidate for any off… --- ## [Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade (No longer a draft as of 06-24-2022.)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-has-overturned-roe-v-wade-no-longer-a-draft-as-of-06-24-2022/963862)
**Author:** [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Replies:** 1605\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-has-overturned-roe-v-wade-no-longer-a-draft-as-of-06-24-2022/963862 "2023-01-07T03:29:59Z")
I believe this is without precedent, for a draft opinion to release before publication, and until publication it is not the official opinion of the court. However, that being said, reliable journalism is circulating the … --- ## [Abortion Bans Fights Sex Trafficking....Whaaaaa?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-bans-fights-sex-trafficking-whaaaaa/972082)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2022, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-bans-fights-sex-trafficking-whaaaaa/972082 "2022-09-26T12:30:59Z")
I saw a commercial for Darren Bailey, a T-rump kissing god botherer running for governor of Illinois, and it made my jaw drop. It had a well dressed woman talking about having been sex trafficked and forced to have mult… --- ## [OB-GYN from the San Francisco area is planning a floating clinic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ob-gyn-from-the-san-francisco-area-is-planning-a-floating-clinic/967823)
**Author:** [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2022, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ob-gyn-from-the-san-francisco-area-is-planning-a-floating-clinic/967823 "2022-07-14T03:54:34Z")
“This is going to be a very large monetary effort that is funded by philanthropy and maybe a donated vessel,” said Dr. Meg Autry, an OB-GYN and professor at UCSF. “Basically a reproductive floating health clinic,” sa… --- ## ["Except to save the life of a pregnant person" - how true is that really?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/except-to-save-the-life-of-a-pregnant-person-how-true-is-that-really/967024)
**Author:** [@Wisp00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wisp00)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [July 12, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/except-to-save-the-life-of-a-pregnant-person-how-true-is-that-really/967024 "2022-07-12T18:42:22Z")
I’m honestly sick and tired of people telling me my life is a price they’re willing to pay… between school shootings, coronavirus, and now abortion bans. Although I’m told I’m exaggerating the last one because these laws… --- ## [Would you "accept" this compromise on abortion?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-this-compromise-on-abortion/966999)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-this-compromise-on-abortion/966999 "2022-07-09T23:46:47Z")
FTR, this isn’t something I’m advocating for. It’s something I’ve seen promoted lately on social media by both men and (ironically) women. Personally, I just want women to have the right to choose and be done with it. O… --- ## [Benjamin Franklin published abortion instructions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/benjamin-franklin-published-abortion-instructions/966960)
**Author:** [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/benjamin-franklin-published-abortion-instructions/966960 "2022-07-09T15:36:35Z")
Not sure where to put this; but maybe it goes here. “\[The book\] starts to prescribe basically all of the best-known herbal abortifacients and contraceptives that were circulating at the time,” Farrell said. “It’s jus… --- ## [Democrats should have codified Roe v. Wade into Law narrative](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-should-have-codified-roe-v-wade-into-law-narrative/967131)
**Author:** [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Replies:** 150\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-should-have-codified-roe-v-wade-into-law-narrative/967131 "2022-07-08T18:10:22Z")
In the midst of all the Roe v. Wade fallout a narrative seems to be taking shape. It has “progressives” laying the guilt of what happened at the feet of Democrats for not making Abortion rights a law. I’m really skeptica… --- ## [How do "abortion pills" work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-abortion-pills-work/966893)
**Author:** [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [July 7, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-abortion-pills-work/966893 "2022-07-07T21:30:13Z")
I’ve heard the past few days that women can “get” abortions by taking a pill, rather than going through a whole surgical procedure. On the surface, this seems to be a good work-around of the whole political crisis, but I… --- ## [So how many young women did you know, college & high school, who disappeared after finding themselves pregnant?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-young-women-did-you-know-college-high-school-who-disappeared-after-finding-themselves-pregnant/966874)
**Author:** [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2022, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-young-women-did-you-know-college-high-school-who-disappeared-after-finding-themselves-pregnant/966874 "2022-06-30T13:58:39Z")
I can think of 3 right off the bat. Just up and disappeared one day. One poor set of parents kept calling and calling me for information I didn’t have, since we’d been friends. 1st year college. She was afraid to tell th… --- ## [Abortion patient version of the Fugitive Slave Act -- would it be legally possible?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-patient-version-of-the-fugitive-slave-act-would-it-be-legally-possible/966805)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-patient-version-of-the-fugitive-slave-act-would-it-be-legally-possible/966805 "2022-06-30T13:03:11Z")
Is there any constitutional or legal reason there couldn’t be another federal law like the Fugitive Slave Act, but requiring blue states to cooperate in catching and returning people to red states because they are pregna… --- ## [I need to make a bad taste "joke" about the recent Roe/Wade issue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815)
**Author:** [@Rejutka\_Lupex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rejutka_Lupex)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-bad-taste-joke-about-the-recent-roe-wade-issue/966815 "2022-06-30T02:34:44Z")
Another victory for the pro-birth part of the death cult of evil. Yay. Since abortions are now going to be illegal, and contraception is next, with sexual education in school being frowned upon anyway, I guess “post-nat… --- ## [Anti-abortion laws and Jury Nullification](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-laws-and-jury-nullification/967001)
**Author:** [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-laws-and-jury-nullification/967001 "2022-06-29T20:13:09Z")
Here is an article I found to get things started. The author claims that although jury nullification is generally very rare, abortion may be an exception. I agree, for several reasons. Anti abortion laws are widely… --- ## [Does anyone else think the Roe v. Wade repeal was a deliberate distraction from the insurrection trial?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-think-the-roe-v-wade-repeal-was-a-deliberate-distraction-from-the-insurrection-trial/966854)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2022, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-think-the-roe-v-wade-repeal-was-a-deliberate-distraction-from-the-insurrection-trial/966854 "2022-06-28T01:33:14Z")
I’m starting to think so. What does the Dope hivemind think about this? --- ## [Can mods make an abortion tag for threads like the one for Ukraine war?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-mods-make-an-abortion-tag-for-threads-like-the-one-for-ukraine-war/966899)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-mods-make-an-abortion-tag-for-threads-like-the-one-for-ukraine-war/966899 "2022-06-26T16:47:50Z")
The abortion threads are proliferating and I’m having trouble finding some. Could the mods make a sorting tag for abortion threads, like the one for Ukraine war? Thanks.