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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. It's in effect an institution of religion,
Tue May 28, 2019, 02:00 PM
May 2019

Not surprised they refused to take it up at this time. Unlike this writer, many believe it's inevitable that the people being appointed will eventually move to criminalize abortion, and perhaps much more, such as some kinds of contraception -- or all contraception.

Incredible as it sounds, the "right to privacy" that underlies all this was only "inferred" in the 1970s after CT outlawed contraception. In a first decision the justices decided married people had a right to use it, and to not have the police tossing their homes looking for it. It took a second case to decide everyone did. Some born since then may think that was back in the stone ages, and it sure sounds like it, but it wasn't. And now the same as then, a right to control one's reproduction, including the right to have children at all, is still stated nowhere in the constitution, only inferred from various places.

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