Leaked Supreme Court Decision signals majority set to overturn Roe v. Wade

[Rev. Rye]

Sure, why don't we put basic rights up to a vote in each state. Have different rights depending upon where you live or happen to be. Can't see anything wrong with that.

Just pointing out arguments of convenience. The person seemed to be saying that the draft court ruling was mistaken since, according to the poster's presented data, it was unpopular.

I'm saying that the draft ruling is bad because it doesn't take into account the opinions of those who will actually be affected by it. Once you can divorce abstract thought from observable reality (like, for instance, arguing that a right to abortion wasn't a thing until the late 20th century, therefore, it's not a valid right*), you can prove anything. Once you do that, you can argue that other, living, breathing human beings are little more than chattel. You can prove that it's A-OK to keep other races separate just as long as you keep them "separate, but equal." You can prove that the rights of something that's effectively brain-dead and can only survive when physically leeching from another person (which, functionally, is what a fetus is until well into the second trimester) trump the rights of a living, breathing woman every time they come into conflict.

* The fallaciousness of an appeal from tradition aside, it's not even all that accurate, since abortion (at least until the mother first feels the fetus moving) only started to become illegal in 1821.