To End 'Roe,' GOP-Appointed Justice Says Pregnant Women Were Prosecuted In 1600s

[YoshidaYui]

[Darwins_Retriever]

1. Of course in the 1600's

They believed at conception the embryo was a Homunculus (a microscopic perfectly formed human being). We kinda know now that this isn't true.

[Dustlawyer]

5. Doctors were still trying to cure the sick with leeches.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. This draft opinion is a piece of crap

Link to tweet

[Warpy]

3. It's glaringly obvious he also doesn't know what a "quick" pregnancy was

It means a pregnancy five months in, when fetal movement can be felt. Abortion at this stage in an era when people were still eating worm stew as a spring tonic and getting bled for smallpox was usually fatal to both woman and fetus. However, it is unclear what Hale actually punished, and it seems a lot more likely, given male knowledge of obstetrics then (and now) that he was punishing stillbirth, the situation the church has put women into in El Salvador.

Hale was ignorant scum who despised women and that's the level Alito wants to return to.

And he lacks both this medical and historical context ever to realize what a complete arse he made of himself with his ecclesiastical but not legal opinion. I'm sure Rome will make him a saint, goody for him.

[magicguido]

4. the Sad Legacy of W. Bush; trump; Putin; and the Electoral College

[erronis]

6. Please add the catholic and evangelical churches; federalist society, CNP, all repuglicons.