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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

He’s saying there is no right because abortion once was criminalized. The logical deduction from his own argument is that what was not criminalized must be a right. It’s his stupid game, not mine, but he loses at his own game because abortion wasn’t criminalized before quickening in deeply rooted history. [/quote]
+1 Alito’s “facts” are totally wrong. Good thread on this here:
[twitter]https://twitter.com/aarontanglaw/status/1521535143864721408?s=21&t=mWoFAt87NouBM2x8dT94sA[/twitter][/quote]

“It was only illegal in lots of places, not all places” does not show that it was deeply rooted throughout the country. Marijuana is legal in some places today, but no one would say that the right to toke up is on footing similar to, say, the right to counsel. [/quote]

For the 857th time, abortion before quickening was legal in the US prior to Emancipation. [/quote]

Republicans don't do facts.  Or principles  Or integrity.[/quote]

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