This is not nuance here. I am not disagreeing with your general point. However, I think this needs some clarification.Morley wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 3:57 am
If you think (as you have suggested that you indeed do) that Roe was decided correctly, then you believe that the right to abortion is protected by the Constitution, the same as any right that is explicitly endorsed. If I remember correctly, the justices decided that the right to privacy is implied throughout the Constitution, and that this right to privacy suggests the right to control our own bodies.
I think the decision was sound. Others obviously disagree. I'm with you in thinking that it should have been codified into federal law--but, because it was a Supreme Court decision, most thought it pretty unlikely that it was ever going to be seriously challenged. Well, at least until the last five or six years, when folks started to worry.
I am not a lawyer, historian, or constitutionalist. I am, to put it mildly, the dumbest person on this forum when it comes to this stuff. I have no way of knowing if Roe was decided "correctly" or if it implied that abortion was a constitutional right versus just making it legal. Like driving a car is not a right but it is legal.
I think a woman should have the right to do as she sees fit. The constitution does not address abortion. The legislature did not make it a right or a law. Now the states can and will do what they do. I see no problem with that, given the ineptitude of the house, senate and previous administrations.
I do not think you are wrong. I am merely explaining that I am dumb and don't know if Roe was decided correctly.