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by imgabe 1461 days ago
The supreme court doesn't write laws, they only interpret them. Laws are very specifically written and often include enumerated exceptions and specific scenarios. They don't just say "Life begins at conception and that's that".
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Oklahoma has proposed. Supremes removed all limits on laws. “Not mentioned in constitution” applies to all sorts of things.
> Though the bill considers a pregnancy to begin at fertilization, and not implantation, the bill does not restrict the use of forms of contraception that prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in a uterus. According to the bill, abortion "does not include the use, prescription, administration, procuring, or selling of Plan B, morning-after pills, or any other type of contraception or emergency contraception."

It doesn't mention anything about IVF, but as that doesn't involve an abortion procedure it would probably not be affected either. The bill does not propose what you're saying it does.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/19/politics/oklahoma-abortio...

> The supreme court doesn't write laws, they only interpret them.

That is a technical fiction. The Supreme Court rewrites laws all the time. They are the line-item veto a President is not allowed to have.

You don't have to like it. This is literally the system we suffer.