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For some reason, Bette Midler decided to take to Twitter to peddle some misinformation about Justice Alito’s leaked draft abortion-related Supreme Court opinion.
“#RoeVWade has been settled law, guaranteed by the Constitution for 50 years; the 14th Amendment to the document that is the foundation of our country’s laws. If they strike down this amendment, what is to stop them striking down others that conservatives don’t agree with?” the far-left actress/comedienne/singer wrote breathlessly on the social media platform as part of a chorus of those who are engaging in a certain degree of fear-mongering.
In the controversial 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, seven justices derived a privacy right in the due-process clause of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to justify a right to abortion throughout the country.
Justice Alito’s draft majority opinion, assuming it is ever finalized in its current form, would return the abortion-rights issue to each state. Many blue states, for example, will quickly pass statutes or take other measures to maintain the legality of the procedure in addition to whatever related laws are already on the books.
https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1521474031077277696
The potential Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs. v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in no way whatsoever eviscerates the 14th Amendment itself, nor would it have any legal authority to do so.
It appears likely that the draft was leaked, in violation of high court protocol, to help galvanize the Democrat vote heading into the November elections. Some conservative influencers are describing that transgression as an actual insurrection.
Given the disastrous domestic and international policies under the Biden administration, perhaps Democrat operatives have concluded that they have nothing else.
No one would ever accuse Midler, 76, of being a constitutional scholar or even someone with a large reservoir of common sense especially since she has a history of saying dumb things on social media that appear to reflect elitist, Hollywood-style liberalism, which ironically results in a form of exclusion rather than inclusion.
Midler, once known as “the Divine Miss M” at the height of her show-business career, also appeared to be one of many relevance-desperate celebrities, or supposed celebrities, aggressively promoting the COVID-19 vaccine that seems to run counter to the liberal ‘my body, my choice’ philosophy.
Bette Midler regrets insulting ‘poor, illiterate and strung out’ people of West Virginia amid Manchin tirade via @BIZPACReview – https://t.co/VxwToR3wpO
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) December 21, 2021
Unlike the uninformed Midler, progressive pundit Glenn Greenwald, one of the few active, intellectually honest left-wing journalists, has put the matter in perspective on Substack irrespective of one’s views on the pro-choice, pro-life debate:
Alito’s decision, if it becomes the Court’s ruling, would not itself ban abortions. It would instead lift the judicial prohibition on the ability of states to enact laws restricting or banning abortions. In other words, it would take this highly controversial question of abortion and remove it from the Court’s purview and restore it to federal and state legislatures to decide it. One cannot defend Roe by invoking the values of democracy or majoritarian will. Roe was the classic case of a Supreme Court ruling that denied the right of majorities to decide what laws should govern their lives and their society.
One can defend Roe only by explicitly defending anti-majoritarian and anti-democratic values: namely, that the abortion question should be decided by a panel of unelected judges, not by the people or their elected representatives…
Even the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is celebrated as a champion of women’s rights and the pro-choice cause, reportedly expressed the view that Roe was too sweeping in its scope.
Apart from those who are participating in the mass hysteria that the pending decision is a harbinger of a rollback of various fundamental rights, Twitter users are ridiculing Midler for her off-key, less-than-divine claim. Here is a sample:
They can’t repeal an amendment, ma’am. It takes a supermajority of Congress and 3/4 of the states.
— Bob Richards (@BobRichards57) May 3, 2022
this is an amazingly bad take https://t.co/u2Bg0zdjGR
— Bad Constitutional Takes (@BadConstTakes) May 3, 2022
To be fair, “Separate but equal” was also settled law for 50+ years. Sometimes the Court gets things wrong and must eventually act to right said wrong.
— Secret Agent Whens (@SATWM) May 3, 2022
Plessis v Ferguson was also “settled law” that was overturned by Brown v Board of Education. If you truly believe in precedent, you HAVE to support Plessy. Why are you a racist? Obergfell also reversed one (u=homophone). There are dozens other examples.
— BananaPuddin’&Vodka🥳 (@SirLancey_Pants) May 3, 2022
The irony here: Associate Justice William O’Douglas, the last living FDR appointee, was notorious for not highly valuing judicial precedent (stare decisis) when deciding cases, and was part of the majority decision on Roe. He’s now viewed one of the historical liberal justices.
— Bobby Karle (@RobKarle) May 4, 2022
Overturning a supreme court ruling is not striking down an amendment.
SCOTUS has no authority to strike down amendments, that’s not how the constitution works.
— Nunyadambidnes (@cyberdeathninja) May 3, 2022
It doesn’t overturn legislation. It only overturns a prior ruling. You are correct that now each state has an opportunity to codify the legality of abortion with votes. Regardless where you stand in the issue this is how it should be.
— Taco Fan 🌮 (@atacoaday1) May 3, 2022
Abortion was never written in the Constitution so don’t try to paint yourself being a expert at the Constitution when you are speaking out of your ass. https://t.co/1wV231e9yf
— Edward 🇺🇸🇵🇭 (@Edward85191114) May 3, 2022
You do realize that’s not what they’re doing because they literally can’t, right?
The Supreme Court has no authority to “strike down” Constitutional amendments.
🫤 https://t.co/XdAmBJd9k2— Count Dibbula (@CountDibbula) May 3, 2022
1. 49 years. 2022- 1973 = 49.
2. No, it hasn’t.
3. It would, as it did before, revert back to the authority of the States.
You can’t even do math properly and yet you believe you can be a moral/ ethical voice over this issue.
Bruh.— DadeLeeMurphy™ (@DADEZCMURPHY85) May 3, 2022
There’s a lot of emotion on the field. Wherever one is there is one thing to be sad about. How many Americans don’t know the difference between an Amendment and a court ruling. We really are doomed.
— newportironman (@newportironman) May 3, 2022
Says the woman who wants to strike down the 1st and 2nd amendments.
— Kevin Jackson (@KevinPJackson) May 3, 2022
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Another low IQ liberal with no facts
One of the amazing yet not amazing thing about liberals is they shoot their collective mouths off with very little substance to back it up. The just jump on the band wagon and begin shouting stupid comments!
My question about all of this is whether or not my tax dollars will continue to fund abortion on demand. I am against that.
Remember back when people used to call her “the divine Miss M”? I don’t think the “M” stood For MENTAL, unless Followed by ILLNESS! She’s all gungho For eliminating SOME RIGHTS – the ones she DOES NOT approve of – the ONES SPECIFICALLY IN THE CONSTITUTION!!!
You want an abortion? You can have an abortion. You just need to drag your irresponsible, murdering a$$ out of our state and go get it someplace where they sanction the murder of helpless babies.
~Every Red State in America
One thing about Twitter, it has, like many illiterate that open their mouths, removed all doubt about whether or not one is a fool.
Why even respond to this washed up has been? She’s just another drooling loony liberal who shows up every now and then to verify what we already know…she’s an idiot!! BTW: why hasn’t she been more vocal over this disaster of a president we’ve been saddled with? She sure had a lot to say whenever Donald Trump turned his head and sneezed!!
This very dim-witted old Liberal crone, and elitist hypocrite – spent way too much time in those gay bathhouses where she got her start-all that steam destroyed the 7 brain cells she was born with.
Midler is just an old drug whore burnt out moron trying to be relevant. She’s too stupid to live.
Bette midler , joy behar, whoopi Goldberg , why would anyone listen to a word out of their mouths. Singing a song and telling a joke is no recommendation for legal advice. Not does it show legal knowledge.
Another example of why celebs should stay out of politics. Bette honey you don’t have a clue here. Take your meds and it’s time for your nap.
Where is Mary Poppins at the Ministry of Truth? Midler is spreading disinformation.
It’s only misinformation if it doesn’t align with the lefts narrative!
Using section 1 of the 14th amendment to justify Roe v Wade is an even bigger stretch than Roberts and his justification of obamacare!!
Roe v wade legalizes abortion up to the second of birth and forbids states to say otherwise. To say it is not murder 1 second before birth for the “convenience” of a woman is kinda amazing…..and absolutely pathetic.
Just another loud mouth uneducated Liberal espousing the Marxist Talking Points. Roe was bad law from day one. The Liberal Earl Warren Court and its progeny pushed a Federal Government Takeover of everything under the banner of PreNumbral Rights and equal Justice. The 10th Amendment was virtually abolished and the idea of a Republic was being dismantled for pure democracy. As Thomas Jefferson said democracies fail. In a democracy two wolves and a chicken argue over what to have for lunch. In a Republic the minority always has a say. Democracy is based on the whimsical beliefs of 50.01% at any given time. A Republic is cautious and respectful of the minority as they always hold power to reject the majority. Compromise is the work of a Republic, vast swings in everything is a democracy.
Bette Midler??? That old actress from the 60’s??? That Bette Midler??? She’s got to be a hundred by now! I thought she was dead!
She is. She just forgot to lay down.🤣
😂😂😂😂, once she got off her backside.
Regrettably, she’s not dead. She just looks and smells like she is.