Should Roe v. Wade Be Overturned?

Should Roe v. Wade be overturned? Legal scholars and reproductive rights experts Catherine Glenn Foster of Americans United for Life, Kathryn Kolbert of Barnard College, and Mary Ziegler of Florida State University College of Law join America's Town Hall for a timely discussion exploring the question: What does the Constitution say about reproductive rights?

[twocents]

Really bothers me when people refer to the opposing sides as either “anti-choice” or “anti-life” or similar when talking about this issue. The sides call themselves pro-life and pro-choice for a reason, and that’s to emphasize the moral question that concerns them most in this topic. Using the terms anti -choice and anti-life is intentionally misleading and manipulative.

[Sane]

If women want the constitutional right to abortion, let's do it the right way - amendment the constitution! I do not like the idea of judges litigating from the bench, as that is beyond the scope of their authority. Leads us to a very dark place.

[davidwestfall]

Life begins at conception, the last I heard, murder was a capital crime!

[valentines]

Man it's crazy to read opinions from 2 years ago and now

[nowlwane]

Feminism: safe but rare
Feminism 20 years later: kill them at birth for any reason. My body my choice

[PatriotMommy]

We were told that it was a medical procedure that would be kept Safe, Legal and Rare.
Now it's being celebrated, weaponized and commercialized to drive up their sales past previous numbers. If that's not completely evil I don't know how our country can come back from this?
I continually hear about the sins of Americas past. Haven't we learned anything from our predecessors? are we going on almost a half of a Century still allowing their unalienable Rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness to be stolen from our most vulnerable and innocent.

[ThethomasJefferson]

“With consistency, beautiful and undeviating, human life, from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law. In the contemplation of law, life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb. By the law, life is protected not only from immediate destruction, but from every degree of actual violence, and, in some cases, from every degree of danger.”

James Wilson
Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, (one of the most spoken at the Constitution conversation and constructor of the Constitution) also appointed to the Supreme Court by George Washington.

[MrTee-deto]

Where does a woman’s right to choose end and the unborn child’s rights to life start? In my opinion, that’s the question that must be decided. It’s a sliding scale that as each day and month passes moves from the mother towards the unborn child. I don’t believe that just because the female is the one carrying the baby that it gives her absolute rights over the life of the unborn child from conception to birth. In my opinion, after looking at medical information, that after the first trimester the child has its own right to life. Now, this could and should be debated, but somewhere in the time between conception and before birth the child’s right to life takes precedence over the woman’s right to choose. The physical health of the mother and possibly rape or incest are exceptions that should be debated.

[waterhead]

The Pro Life movement is getting stronger and stronger.

[pandakso]

51:30 Kathryne (3rd panelist): "Roe v. Wade should be overturned... the matter does not have it's bearings in the constitution."
Catherine (1st panelist): "It should not be overturned... It is fully well-grounded in our constitutional jurisprudence." Love the diversity of thought. Someone here is wrong though, haha. Who's argument holds up?

[mertonhirsch]

Every abortion after viability could be replaced with a procedure of induced labor that would have the same or lower risk to the mother and a substantial probability of a life for the newly born person/potential human, therefore there is no valid argument for after viability based on bodily autonomy, health or privacy rights.

[Steven-fvxw]

when it comes to guns, masks and vaccine, i'm pro-choice. when it comes to abortion, i'm pro-life. done.

[baqirhemraj]

The answer is yes. Woman's fundamental rights to their bodies? Am I missing something? Can a woman create a child? What right do they have to take away a life when they cannot give life to a dead one?

[euphegenia]

Pity Ms. Kolbert isn’t able to explain just how Roe is founded in our constitution.

[patrickritter]

Very prescient. The chipping away is over and the complete overhaul is here.

[TeranRealtor]

Roe should be thrown out. Not because of any shift in public sentiment. SCOTUS is supposed to rule whether something is CONSTITUTIONAL or not.
The whole case was decided as if SCOTUS was our Senate - they decided what they thought would be good for the country. Roe should NEVER have been ruled the way it was - the Constitution has no right in it for women to kill their unborn children.

[elizabethwrigley]

Those baby humans have a right to live. Thy are covered by the constitution.

[yoyogoose]

Roe v. Wade shouldn’t be overturned at all. If those religious people consider abortion is a bad thing, just do not do it by themselves. Why they are trying so hard to eliminate the choices from other people? If moving a fetus off a female body being considered as murder, IVF technology would be a serial killer by selecting the resultant embryo.

[hattymay]

Love the video.
I think we are too corrupt a country to find a middle ground..too corrupt to sit down like yourselves and come up with a solution in less than an hour.

[rsu]

Roe v. Wade established a woman's right to have an abortion without undue restrictive interference from the government. The US Supreme Court held that a woman's right to decide for herself to bring or not bring a pregnancy to term is guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment.