The abortion debate always misses the mark

submitted by orthowire from self.whatever

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

I hear this too much. You're arguing semantics, nothing says the Supreme Court justices have to be constitutional purists. The practical outcome of all this hubalub is abortion becomes widely illegal, that's what matters, and that's what people get.

These nuanced arguments are for the birds.

[–]orthowire[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You are both wrong and confused. You are wrong because you misunderstand what the role of the Supreme Court is, which is constitutional adjudication. The following sentence is taken directly from the first page of Alito's opinion, which confirms this: "The critical question is whether the Constitution, properly understood, confers a right to obtain an abortion." Their decision was based on arguments aimed only to answer this question.

You are confused because you misunderstand my argument. It seems that both you and I agree that the "critical question" posed and debated by the Supreme Court and what the constitution says about abortion is an uninteresting, though consequential, academic debate. The question of whether abortion should be legal or illegal is what people care about and what the focus of this post was.

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I stand by my point. I don't find yours compelling.