An alarmed Rachel Maddow is convinced Republicans will now angle to bring a “fetal personhood” case before the Supreme Court in a bid to totally shut down abortion nationwide.
Such a case would aim to define a fetus as a human being, and an abortion murder. Maddow warned the extremist fight is a protracted game, a long time within the making, often enforced with violence, and that Republicans aren’t about to ease off now that the court has overturned Roe v. Wade.
“The anti-abortion political project of the Republican Party and the political right has been the central organizing principle for the suitable’s entire effort across the judiciary, one for which there remains to be no match or mirror on the left. It’s a giant deal,” she said on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” Friday.
This movement, 40 years within the making, “is just now hitting its stride … just coming into maturity,” she noted.
They usually’re not stopping, she warned.
“There’s nothing within the reasoning of [Friday’s] opinion from these six justices that may stop them from accepting something like a fetal personhood case,” Maddow explained.
“A fetal personhood case … would give this court a path to not only let individual states ban abortion, which is what they did today … A fetal personhood case could possibly be their vehicle to impose a nationwide ban on abortion, on the order of america Supreme Court,” she said.
It’s hardly far-fetched, Maddow argued.
“Wouldn’t it be that way more radical than what they’ve done today? ” she asked. “I mean, they’ve form of broken the seal here, haven’t they? Roe was a 50-year-old precedent that had been reaffirmed by the Supreme Court multiple times,” she noted.
“The conservatives have the ability on this court, and they’ll now wield it nevertheless they need, to realize whatever outcomes they need, to alter the country nevertheless they need without restriction — and you will need to do what they are saying,” she warned.
Maddow told viewers to start looking forward to recent cases that can challenge the rights Justice Clarence Thomas has already warned will probably be next on the chopping block: same-sex marriage and contraception.
“Look ahead to a county clerk somewhere to refuse a license to some attempting to get married,” she said. “Look ahead to any person who works at a clinic somewhere to refuse to process a prescription or an order for contraception … Look ahead to Texas or one other Republican-controlled state to bring back its sodomy law.”
“For them, the dam has burst,” she said of the justices.
“What do you see of their behavior that may offer you any reason to consider that they see a reason to stop?”
See her full warning here:
