Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Monday evoked the dystopia of a full-on “Handmaid’s Story” after a draft majority opinion by the Supreme Courtroom overturning Roe v. Wade was published by Politico.
“Roe was egregiously incorrect from the beginning,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote within the doc, per Politico. “We maintain that Roe and Casey should be overruled … It’s time to heed the Structure and return the problem of abortion to the folks’s elected representatives.”
In an interview with Rachel Maddow, Raskin, a constitutional lawyer, known as the leaked opinion “astonishing and appalling” and mentioned it could eradicate all rights to abortion.
“It situates the trajectory of the American proper the place Fox News and Tucker Carlson wish to go, which is to make us within the picture of Hungarian ‘intolerant’ democracy now. To maintain elections going, the place folks might be whipped up about varied scapegoats. However to carve out and destroy the freedoms and the rights of the folks,” mentioned Raskin.
The courtroom’s official ruling on the matter will solely be closing as soon as it’s printed, and justices can change their votes up till then, meaning nothing is yet decided.
Raskin agreed with the draft opinion that the phrase “abortion” doesn’t seem within the Structure — nor does “contraception” or the phrase “proper to privateness” — although that doesn’t imply these rights shouldn’t be protected.
Roe v. Wade was primarily based on an earlier 1965 ruling putting down a legislation banning contraception, stating that the Structure’s “due course of liberty clause features a proper to privateness over intimate decision-making,” Raskin mentioned. If Roe falls, that will additionally threaten the fitting to contraception and privateness.
The draft opinion “would seem like an invite to have ‘Handmaid’s Story’-type anti-feminist regulation and laws everywhere in the nation,” mentioned Raskin, referring to Margaret Atwood’s novel a couple of future during which girls are pressured to offer start by a authorities run by males.
Raskin additionally mentioned that the draft opinion alerts a return of the Supreme Courtroom to its “historic baseline of being a reactionary, conservative establishment to the far proper of all the things else on the federal stage within the authorities.”
Try Raskin’s full interview within the video clip above.
