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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m making myself read the damn thing and I don’t think I’ve ever been more disgusted.  Apparently women have no fundamental rights to bodily autonomy that are rooted in the country’s history.  Well. That sounds about right.

Expand the court.[/quote]

Also historians are pointing out that Alito’s main assumption is incorrect. In most states, abortion was legal before quickening. Deeply rooted in history. [/quote]

Well then, historians don’t know that the absence of criminal prohibitions is not the same as the presence of a deeply rooted right. If it were tuxedo Wednesdays would be a fundamental right[/quote]

No. He made a big deal that back before women could vote, most states criminalized abortion, and that somehow means there can never be a right to abortion ever. But most of those old laws punished abortion only after quickening, which means there was a recognized right before quickening. That was also the common law history. It wasn’t controversial.

Also, the correct analogy would be that having Tuxedo Wednesdays is none of the government’s business. [/quote]

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