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biaachmonkie | 3 years ago

You seem to ignore the 9th Amendment...

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

So if a right is not explicitly enumerated, it still exists and is retained by the people, NOT the States, the PEOPLE! A right to privacy, to control ones own body is fundamental to freedom.

Read the Thomas concurrence, lots more individual freedoms are going to be killed off by these theocratic fascists on the court.

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pyronik19|3 years ago

From the decision:

"The largely limitless reach of the dissenters’ standard is illustrated by the way they apply it here. First, if the “long sweep of history” imposes any restraint on the recognition of unenumerated rights, then Roe was surely wrong, since abortion was never allowed (except to save the life of the mother) in a majority of States for over 100 years before that decision was handed down. Second, it is impossible to defend Roe based on prior precedent because all of the precedents Roe cited, including Griswold and Eisenstadt, were critically different for a reason that we have explained: None of those cases involved the destruction of what Roe called “potential life.”"