So states may decide on abortion rights, but can't decide their own gun laws? Makes perfect sense.
It does if you go by the Constitution. The second amendment directly addresses the right to bear arms Abortion is not mentioned at all. Therefore abortion becomes a issue to be decided at the state level. Roe was not well decided in 73. Even Ruth B. Ginsburg said as much. If the gradual approach had taken it's course, there was a good chance that in most states, abortion would have moved to be where Hillary Clinton stated she wanted it to be in 2008. "Safe, legal, and rare".
“My criticism of
Roe is that it seemed to have stopped the momentum on the side of change,” Ginsburg said. She would’ve preferred that abortion rights be secured more gradually, in a process that included state legislatures and the courts, she added. Ginsburg also was troubled that the focus on
Roe was on a right to privacy, rather than women’s rights". RGB
Casual observers of the Supreme Court who came to the Law School to hear Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speak about Roe v. Wade likely expected a simple message from the longtime defender of reproductive and women’s rights: Roe was a good decision. Those more acquainted with Ginsburg and her...
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