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[quote=Anonymous][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]

His argument specifically states that abortion has historically been illegal.  That is false and shoddy history intentionally distorted to provide a veneer of respectability to a patently political act.  Yet history is his main argument.  It's just like their inability to understand deism or anything else complex and nuanced about the past.[/quote]

If you think Alito’s argument can be boiled down to the proposition that you have a constitutional right to engage in any activity that has not been “historically…illegal” and that abortion is not such a right then you’re just misreading the opinion. [/quote]

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