Pregnancy and childbirth are dangerous—14 times more dangerous than abortion. The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world and this rate has been increasing in recent years.
Griswold v. Connecticut“Would we allow the police to search the sacred precincts of marital bedrooms for telltale signs of the use of contraceptives? The very idea is repulsive to the notions of privacy surrounding the marriage relationship. We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights…”
Alito focuses very narrowly on abortion rather than considering the general right to privacy that encompasses the abortion decision, which is how the original authors of“deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.” Glaringly rare in Alito’s opinion is consideration of how laws criminalizing abortion would impact women and women’s “liberty,” which is explicitly protected in the Constitution by the post-civil-war 14th Amendment. Alito does not address the obvious fact that forcing women to carry pregnancies to term against their will—and imprisoning them if they end their pregnancies—violates ourHe doesn’t even bother to weigh the interests of the pregnant woman and the supposed rights of the fetus.
Pregnancy and childbirth are dangerous—14 times more dangerous than abortion. The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world and this rate has been increasing in recent years.
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