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In reply to the discussion: Abortion-Travel Bans Are "Next Frontier" With Roe Set to Topple [View all]Zeitghost
(3,887 posts)To overturn Roe. It was left unprotected. It was never enshrined into federal law, it was never added to the Constitution, it was established through careful and clever legal arguments that relied on implied rights "emanating from the penumbra" of the Constitution. No matter where you fall on abortion or where you fall on originalism vs a living Constitution, you have to understand that isn't the strongest ground to stand on, with only the votes of 5 people needed to cast it aside.
That is a far cry from the legal principle that an action has to be tried as a crime in the jurisdiction in which it occurred.
We have unfortunately raised a few generations of people who mistakenly believed Roe was somehow as untouchable as our right to free speech or religious freedom or the right to a jury trial, etc. Your argument here, along with your claim that anyone lied when they acknowledged Roe as precedent during confirmation hearings leads me to believe you were in this group. We never should have rested on the victory of Roe and should have spent the last 50 years working to enshrine it into federal law. The right played the long game and won this battle.