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> They do this because it's a logical pre-requisite for overturning Roe v. Wade. It's not. They could just rule that fetuses of a certain gestational age are a
by humanrebar 9y ago
> They do this because it's a logical pre-requisite for overturning Roe v. Wade.
It's not. They could just rule that fetuses of a certain gestational age are actually people and ban late term abortions (with fair exceptions).
Or they could rule that those fetuses are people and leave it to individual states to decide how to balance the rights to privacy and speech in these cases. States have the ability to use capital punishment, so there's some precedence for encoding the limits of fundamental rights at the state level.
- lisper 9y ago> They could just rule that fetuses of a certain gestational age are actually people and ban late term abortions Late term abortions are already largely illegal even under Roe. The political constituency that supports overturning Roe is ideological; they want to ban ALL abortions. So you would need to declare not only that fetuses are people, but that embryos are people, and that is fraught with all manner of legal peril. Should embryos be counted in the census? What about frozen embryos?