The Supreme Court cited laws from 1868 as 'history and tradition' informing its Dobbs decision. At the time, women had no voting rights in the U.S. (via latimesopinion)
on whether a federal ban on abortion would be constitutional, and I was especially thankful he put a woman’s right to choose in the context of liberty and not just a right to abortion.
Of course, another important historical fact relevant to the time of the adoption of the 14th Amendment was that women couldn’t vote and were completely disenfranchised from the political process.And that points to the more deeply rooted “history and tradition” of humanity’s patriarchy and misogyny and the seemingly never-ending tendency to lean toward authoritarianism.There are far more drugs approved by the U.S.
The only crisis set off by mifepristone is how easily one federal judge and possibly the U.S. Supreme Court can hand down a misguided decision that ignores medical research and science. Overturning the drug’s approval is just another step toward the demise of our democracy.
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