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by aetch 23 days ago
Abortion was kept legal by not having laws prohibiting it. That’s how laws work.

Also the law doesn’t stop republicans much these days.

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This is not true. Many laws banning abortion remained on the books, and the current dystopian bounty hunting system that Texas has was designed to evade Roe v Wade.

This is because Roe decided that a woman has a constitutional right to privacy from her state government while she is pregnant, and that the state's natural interest in the pregnancy only allows them to ban abortion in the third trimester.

Casey was not as unanimous of a ruling, but the assenting opinions made it clearer that a woman's right to an abortion before the point of fetal viability was an extension of her own absolute right to her body.

I firmly believe that the right to an abortion is and has always been granted by the wording of the Constitution, but I also think that the issue is too important for Congress to leave it to jokers like Thomas and Alito.