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Hekate

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5. Thanks, I'm adding this to my collection of articles. The authors noted how obstetrics became the...

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Jul 24, 2022, 05:14 PM

Jul 2022

… exclusive property of male physicians in the 19th century, and hence male lawmakers. This I already knew, but the rest of it — the story of Nancy and her abortion and the women who quite openly helped her, was news to me, and I won’t forget it.

It’s good to have a well-researched rebuttal to The Fanatical Six, especially Alito and the Handmaid. They are not merely ignorant, but willfully and maliciously misleading the ignorant.

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A 1792 case reveals that key Founders saw abortion as a private matter [View all] LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2022 OP

It is Private Matter! TFRD Jul 2022 #1

Hear, hear. Arkansas Granny Jul 2022 #2

Saw a sign at a march recently, it stated simply: "Pro-Privacy" sop Jul 2022 #7

So this is what passes are originalism from a SCOTUS Historic NY Jul 2022 #3

Benajimin Franklin also published instructions for abortion in that same era jmbar2 Jul 2022 #4

I read that and thought, "Gee, I like primary sources." Igel Jul 2022 #11

Very interesting! I like primary sources as well, & after reading quite a few mentions of Franklin's Hekate Jul 2022 #16

Thanks, I'm adding this to my collection of articles. The authors noted how obstetrics became the... Hekate Jul 2022 #5

"Originalists" mzmolly Jul 2022 #6

So much for these phony "originalists" hiding their morbid religious scruples Warpy Jul 2022 #8

Except that the case was weak. Igel Jul 2022 #10

A much better case can be made now Warpy Jul 2022 #13

Good. The more they find, the better. I want to see Alito get schooled. ms liberty Jul 2022 #9

Alito is not "too stupid" to find this. He ignored it to further his own agenda...nt Wounded Bear Jul 2022 #12

The Dobbs decision looks to history to rescind Roe LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2022 #14

K&R UTUSN Jul 2022 #15

The Subversive 6 are not interested in law or precedent, only their extremist ideology. Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2022 #17