woodguru wrote:
I worry about christian compliant rulings just as much as you worry about this. If our system works right as far as challenges for unconstitutional rulings we are good. Unfortunately we have a supreme court that would likely rule in favor of right leaning conservative religious values, as Kavanaugh already has in 2017 in an abortion case he was immediately overruled on. So now he's the highest court, who overrules him when he rules against legal abortions?
I agree with you up until your assessment of Justice Kavanaugh and blame the biased opinions of MSM "journalists" for the reason so many people share the same opinion as you. I've researched this extensively and offer the links to the official written opinions and dissents to those opinions for you or anyone else to make your own decision with all the actual facts and arguments between the judges.
Kavanaugh dissent, Garza v. Hargan, 2017:"The en banc majority has badly erred in this case. The three-judge panel held that the U.S. Government, when holding a pregnant unlawful immigrant minor in custody, may seek to expeditiously transfer the minor to an immigration sponsor before the minor makes the decision to obtain an abortion. That ruling followed from the Supreme Court’s many precedents holding that the Government has permissible interests in favoring fetal life, protecting the best interests of a minor, and refraining from facilitating abortion. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the Government may further those interests so long as it does not impose an undue burden on a woman seeking an abortion.
Today’s majority decision, by contrast, “substantially” adopts the panel dissent and is ultimately based on a constitutional principle as novel as it is wrong: a new right for unlawful immigrant minors in U.S. Government detention to obtain immediate abortion on demand, thereby barring any Government efforts to expeditiously transfer the minors to their immigration sponsors before they make that momentous life decision. The majority’s decision represents a radical extension of the Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence. It is in line with dissents over the years by Justices Brennan, Marshall, and Blackmun, not with the many majority opinions of the Supreme Court that have repeatedly upheld reasonable regulations that do not impose an undue burden on the abortion right recognized by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade".
Kavanaugh said the government was “merely seeking to place the minor in a better place when deciding whether to have an abortion.”
It was even possible the minor — who would have been 16 or 17 weeks pregnant at the end of those 11 days — would have been allowed to have the abortion if a sponsor had not been found, he said. (Texas outlaws abortions after 20 weeks.)
Notably, Kavanaugh didn’t go as far as Judge Karen Henderson, who said unauthorized immigrant minors don’t have the right to an elective abortion.
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/09/kavanaugh-files-abortion-rights/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brett-kavanaugh-raped-immigrant-abortion/
https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/04/garza-v-hargan/
And if you're like me, you'll want to read the actual legal court decision, which are online in .PDF form on the government website.