In a blistering dissent, the Supreme Court’s liberal justices mourn the subjugation of women to the power of the state, and warn that worse is yet to come
The dissent attacks the majority opinion on substantive, moral, historical, logical and legal grounds, warning that the institution has grown brazenly political with Donald Trump’s additions to the bench: “The Court reverses course [onThe court’s decision “consigns women to second-class citizenship” the dissenters write, adding that the majority has decided that “from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of.
As a matter of law, the dissent hits the majority for a relying on historical intent of the constitution’s framers and the authors of the 14th amendment. They underscore that those men “did not understand women as full members of the community embraced by the phrase ‘We the People’” and “did not recognize women’s rights.
Critically, the dissenters note that the right to an abortion is connected to other cherished liberties. They liken the reversal ofto yanking a block from a “Jenga tower” that could collapse Americans’ rights to birth control as well as “same-sex intimacy and marriage.”recognized does not stand alone,” the justices argue, adding that abortion rights both built upon, and provided a foundation for, other decisions “protecting autonomous decisionmaking over the most personal of life decisions.
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