US Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs Wade

I think you are getting a bit confused there with terms and house elections. Bigger states get to elect more members to the Congress then smaller ones due to size. The Senate is meant to be a more equal chamber for all with each state regardless of size gets to elect 2 senators each. Not 100% on the exact reason.

So Dublin would still be able to elect more TDs then Leitrim maybe even more if we go by how many tds per 1000 if we went by American rule, but each would have 2 senators

Coalition is a different thing which we have due to PR and the amount of parties

With the ruling there is nothing to stop the republicans from bringing in a federal law that covers all states making abortion illegal. The door is also open for states to criminalise those who go to other states to seek abortions

There isn't anything in the US constitution permitting a lot of things, for example marriage equality - be it on the basis of gender or race

That will be the next battle after this same sex marriage and will be more bolden after the suspected gains they would now get if the November elections were run now.

The problem with the Constitution is not what isn't written in it but how it was written. The founding fathers always believed the constitution should change in time depending on the times and people would be smart enough to do it, but that was before party politics really became a thing

Rioters injured hundreds of cops, one died during the attack, and others have taken their lives afterwards. As a history buff, can you tell me how many of those insurrections were actively supported by the spouse of a sitting SCJ?

That politico article isn't accurate, there have been plenty of leaks from SCOTUS - sure the original Roe v Wade was leaked in advance.

It does seem like a great idea by the right if either a) one or more of the justices were having second thoughts or were pushing back on the contents of the draft or b) they wanted to distract, feign outrage, and play the victim about the leak to take away from the expected backlash of the content - just like you are doing now. How much the biggest right wing media outlets are playing down the decision says the latter is very likely, they know this is going to be hated by the wider public and want anything else to distract.

Never happening - why would the turkeys vote for christmas? Republicans fight every effort to support voter's rights, they are never going to change a rigged system that is the only thing giving them any chance of power.

The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment: "nor shall any State ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws". Cited in Loving v. Virginia (1967) which decided that interracial marriage bans were unconstitutional.

The US Constitution doesn't "permit" people to do anything. It assumes pre-existing natural rights in accordance with Common Law. It permits the government to do only what the Constitution says it can. Anything else (unless the Constitution says otherwise about it) is a state issue.

This is why abortion will still be legal in California and New York if Roe V Wade is overturned.

If the Dems are worried about a federal law banning abortion, why don't they enact a federal law guaranteeing abortion rights? Oh that's right, they don't have the votes.

Many live in the US or have families there so the decision directly impacts them.

Others given their posting record in other threads and terminology they use just get a very weird pleasure from attacking anything they deem as 'woke' or 'liberal', which apparently includes the rights women in the US have over their bodies.

I’m curious, what would be your position on the death penalty be it here or in the USA.

I don't disagree at all with your provided definition of abortion, so cleverly procured from Apple Dictionary.

But I never said abortion was DEFINED as "the killing of a human being". I said it RESULTED in "the killing of a human being".

That said, my claim withstands this definition of abortion. How does one deliberately terminate a pregnancy? They remove the foetus/unborn human from the womb. How does one do that? By either administering mifepristone and misoprostol if in 1st trimester. Pills which cause the foetus/unborn human to die and be expelled from the womb. If too late for that suction and curettage is used. The foetus/unborn human is physically destroyed and removed by use of a suction device and a tool called a "curette".

All of these result in the "termination of pregnancy" as your definition says an abortion is. They not only result in but require the killing of the unborn human being involved.

Your definition mentions abortions usually take place within 28 weeks of pregnancy.

This is a human being that was born after 22 weeks of pregnancy.

Do you agree that this is a human being? Would it still be a human being were it located inside the womb and/or potentially aborted? If not, then what's the difference?