Texas Supreme Court deals final blow to federal abortion law challenge

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25. From Elie Mystal: "...what makes abortion difficult is not some fancy lawyering from the right,

but the near refusal to defend it from the left. ...

Don't get me wrong, "choice" is great. It's a fine frame. It's language designed to appeal to people who have a genuinely held religious believe about when life begins, and even the word choice should remind those adherents that not everybody shares their choice of God, either, and yet we co-exist.

But the better legal frame is "Forced birth is some evil shit that can never be compelled by a legitimate government. The end.

...if you don't like my Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment [right to privacy and due process clause] argument in defense of abortion rights I could give some Thirteenth Amendment arguments. Because the same amendment that prohibited slavery surely prohibits the state from renting out women's bodies, for free, for ninth months, to further its interests. Forced labor is already unconstitutional."