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The history that some, including the justices, are reading is a merge of sinful and illegal. One interpretation of the English common law is that it left aborti
by tobylane 4y ago
The history that some, including the justices, are reading is a merge of sinful and illegal. One interpretation of the English common law is that it left abortion to the ecclesiastical courts. To use your words, the equation changes at the quickening (first kick), but I don’t think that was noted in the SC opinion.
- tsimionescu 4y agoI think history is even less relevant than religion. This is a question of fundamental human rights, and it should be settled under a modern understanding of human rights, not medieval legal frameworks.