its members didn t grow old and die out. instead it kept renewing itself and it grew stronger and younger year after year, decade after decade. it continued, of course, we still had a problem because too often republican presidents and you know who you are promised to appoint pro-lifeic justices but didn t keep their promises. justices o connor, souterth and kennedy all voted with the judicial activists on these and related cases on abortion that had conservatives including yours truly, noto for george w. bush to pull b the nomination of harriet miersi back in 2005, she would haveo been another vote to uphold roe . thank goodness. wa we have sm alito on the court now. we always seem to be one or two votes short, didn t we, over all these years? but in twenty sixteen pro-life voters saw a chance toaw change the republican party andpa d the court for donald trump wasn t part of the gop establishment.
now look at all those young women and men celebrating life that is the future of america, the pro-life movement. but there are still some who consider abortion a holy sacramentrt and they re furious. they re tryings to intimidate the justices at their homes, the court. to defy they re desperate too inflame the nation as it was in themm summer of 2020 six . the legislature got rid of the five four majority that overturn roe and dobbs simply returns the issue of abortion to the states where it properly belongs. it will be legal in many states
matter, it has been totally unworkable and there are no reliance interests that , you know, essentially dictatets. that it must be cemented in stone forever. and as kerry put it very well, i think this is going to go back to the states my homeni state of californiaa is probabl going to joinof north korea and being one of the most liberal m places on earth to get abortions, places like texas. clo it st going to be much more restrictive. but the point is the people are now going too be able to have the debate and have the argument that we just have not been able to have as as a policy for the last 50 years. and i think that s a positive development. and you know, biden was correcte on one thing. this isn t the last word on abortion. there s going to be a lotd more words. it s just that they re not going to be spoken bpokee by te justices. they re going to p be spoken by the people. well, the main thing, robert, is that is not a fundamentalt right enshrined in ourin constitution and that
be taken lightly. robert, your response to this assertion that justices when they were nominated, the nominees lied during their confirmation hearings aboutat precedent? yeah, all of the justices t in their confirmation hearings made it clear that roe was a precedent. it had been followed, but its was on shaky ground. they made no bones about that and i think justice alitojo does an excellent job in his opinion of explainingb it. a every single member sitting member of the court has voted to overrule precedent and in fact, every member of the courtv for the last 50 years hasot votd to overrule precedent. he hastn this phenomenal footnoe that goes on for multiple pages where he lists all ofou the supreme court decisions in the last 50 , 60 years that have overruled constitutional precedent. and i think he makes i a compelling case that if there was ever a decisionti that satisfied all the conditions for being overruledis o this is it. and he makes the point it was egregiously wrong when
but illegal or highlys. restricted in others until the people decide differently. it s called the democratic process. ever heardocra of it? but people who should know better, of course they re engaged in what can only be described as pathetic and lame efforts to misstate and twist the ruling chief among them joe biden himself, who was three justices nine by one president donald trump were the court today s decision to upend the scales of justice and eliminate a fundamental right for women in this country state laws banning abortion are automatically taking a effect today, jeopardizing the health of millionsardi of women, some without exceptions. so same as women can be punished for protecting their health care for principles of equality, libertyy ,dignity and the stability of the rule of law demand that roe should not have been overturned