The end of Roe vs Wade will remake the sexual revolution

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[–]Alan_Crowe 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The article underplays the role of federalism. The states that are fully on board with the sexual revolution will permit abortion and nothing will change internally. The states that were split, with many resisting the sexual revolution will have that split move up the political agenda. Some of them will outlaw abortion and then stick to their prohibition.

Yes, that will remake the sexual revolution, in those states. States that were reluctant. Interesting times indeed, but most Americans will be watching the action from a fuck-as-usual state.

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I think we should look beyond the abortion implications. Finding some implicit "right to privacy" in the Constitution was never good law. I don't know all of the decisions that have been built atop that precedent, but I'm inherently skeptical of them. If a state wants abortion rights, or if Congress wants abortion rights, they should do it correctly. Tortured, heavy-handed misreading of the actual law is not the answer here.