Is the draft abortion ruling a correct one?

In case you've been under a cone of news-media silence, legal abortion is suddenly a topic of political conversation once again in America.

The leak of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court indicates that a majority of justices are ready to overturn Roe v. wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that makes abortion legal in in this country.

The news raises so many different issues for our Question of the Week for our readers: What are your thoughts on the likely new Supreme Court ruling, and how will it change access to abortion?

The news was not unexpected, seeing as how former President Trump appointed three anti-abortion justices, creating a new conservative majority on the high court.

But we'll take it from the top. In confirmation hearings, those justices seemed to indicate they saw Roe as “settled law” in this country. Does the quick move to overturn settled law indicate that they were fibbing to the senators?

Does the leak of the draft ruling, virtually unprecedented in Supreme Court history, upset you, in that it might affect the ability of the justices to trust their colleagues and their colleagues' staffs?

Do you agree with the logic presented in his argument against the Roe decision by Justice Samuel Alito, that the “right to privacy” on which Roe pivots is actually nowhere in the Constitution, so that the ruling was wrong in the first place?

Pro-choice proponents liken any coming change to Roe to a nightmare out of the dystopian novel “The Handmaid's Tale,” in which future women's hard-won reproductive rights have been taken from them by a patriarchal society. Do you agree with that analysis?

Or, as with gun control and so many other legal matters, is abortion legality rightly in the hands of the 50 states, to set policy as their legislatures and citizens see fit?

California politicians talk about becoming a safe haven for women from other states that outlaw abortion, even encouraging those who want an abortion to come here by paying for the procedure and the trip. Do you favor that future for our state?

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