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Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health: The End of Roe

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Do We Care When We Saw It?

Alito is trying to make this case that fundamental rights are those that have long standing roots in our legal tradition, and abortion is just not one of them. Lido: The shit is made up. I think reading this opinion really high lights. They are making this up as they go because they want the result. It's only by keeping the question narrow that conservatives say a right to abortion reflects a departure from the legal tradition. You could use the same logic to say that the only fundamental rights that exist in this country are those that adhere to landowning white men? Because no one else has been around for that long. No one else has a long standing back centuries going forward.

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