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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Omg, yes let’s take about the right to own… other people’s bodies… that the southern states fought and lost a war over.

[b]What you decide to do with your own body[/b] is the most basic of freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. [/quote]

You're confusing euthanasia with abortion. [/quote]

Rights are not absolute.  They are subject to constraint by the state in compelling circumstances. The test that the SCOTUS just threw out by erasing women’s rights.  Euthanasia and abortion are both private medical decisions—state needs to justify itself more compellingly than they do for issuing parking tickets.[/quote]

In the case of abortion that justification is obvious: to protect the life of the unborn (which includes many future women). Even the Romans two thousand years ago recognized that simple fact.[/quote]

Great—so then why did SCOTUS have to throw out the test?

Because they wanted to place no limits on what the state can tell women to do with their bodies.   The way the Court has to balance interests in cases where fundamental rights are at stake is different than the way they have to balance interests in cases where they are not.  In Dobbs, the Court just said, that’s too hard so we are saying women have no rights to private medical decisions regarding their fertility.  It absolutely radical and insane.[/quote]

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