So when James Madison was writing the constitution 235 years ago

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why did he stay silent on abortion?

Surely not much has changed.

[niyad]

1. Just like the christofascists' precious book is silent on abortion.

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2. And there you have it.

Making law or morality out of a document which says nothing about the subject gives you a blank check to be as outrageous and hateful as you want.

[SheltieLover]

5. This!👆

[exboyfil]

6. It's not

Actually it is sanctioned if a husband's wife steps out on him. Got to protect HIS property rights you know.

[wackadoo wabbit]

15. And there's even instructions on how to perform one /nt

[roamer65]

3. Because back then, abortion was not the hot button issue it is now.

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4. I was being ironic.

Of course it wasn't. There was no reliable medical care, and women had no rights.

[roamer65]

9. ...

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Hard to pick u irony right now.

What a horrible day for the nation.

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14. yes it is

[allegorical oracle]

10. Women didn't really start getting equal rights with men until the 1960s -- when we started getting

surly and shouting/marching for an equal rights amendment. Our mothers couldn't even get a credit card without a man co-signing for them. My pay was never equal to the guys I worked with (doing the same or even harder work).

[RANDYWILDMAN]

7. two types of people

people who see the fluid progression of the constitution where 250 year old men could not see how things were going to unfold.


The other group included Alito, ABC, Clarence etc and who love to think they could live in the world 250 years ago and just add those rules to today...give me a fucking break. ABC and Clarence were not even full citizens then let alone capable of being justices or judges or law students or even people who can vote and own property.


Sorry white men from 250 years were good people, but they were not progressive and they were not flexible and they didn't think that blacks were equals and they didn't think women were equals and they didn't think white men who weren't educated were equal and they didn't think white men who didn't own property were equal to them.


Sam Alito sucks at the law

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8. Obama had it right.

He saw history evolving to fulfill things that were implicit in the constitution.

I never dreamed we'd go backwards.

[Hekate]

11. Because anything to do with lady-parts was not men's business

Midwives could help the ladies sort out any menstrual irregularities that troubled them.

Concomitantly, men’s business was nearly everything else, and the ladies need not trouble themselves with that.

Some exceptions may apply.

[mcar]

12. Why did he stay silent on women?

The word "woman" does not appear in the Constitution either. Seems like Alito thinks women have no rights at all.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. He didn't have much to say about appendectomies, either.