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BHMCruiser

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  1. I loved the Wire. I thought the first episode of We Own This City was objectively terrible.
  2. I just finished the first episode. I thought it was terrible. Does it get better?
  3. I lived in Baltimore for 7 years and consider The Wire to be a VERY optimistic take on Baltimore. At least it was written by somebody who clearly loves Baltimore notwithstanding how completely fucked up it is.
  4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/03/snake-infested-house-fire/
  5. Agreed
  6. Okay
  7. save it for the rubes
  8. Oh come on. You don't really think I am unaware that the right had been recognized for some period of time? Give me a break. All I am saying is what SCOTUS will be holding: that there never was a constitutional right to abortion. It's no different than the concept of an unconstitutional law being void ab initio.
  9. you know that's not true for all the reasons you've already stated in terms of women being chattel, lack of autonomy, etc. You're making a natural rights argument that is different than what the constitution protects. And for what it's worth I agree with you on the policy.
  10. it's been done But no question Heller is up for the Roe treatment once the composition of the Court flips
  11. I have no desire whatsoever to insult you or your intelligence.
  12. I'm saying that the people who ratified the constitution, the bill of rights, and the fourteenth amendment were not contemplating abortion when they did so and certainly did not intend to protect that right by doing so
  13. lol and what method of constitutional interpretation is not results driven? Parts of it are accurate, which is why I said it was an oversimplification and not incorrect. It's correct in the sense that rights evolve in terms of how they are expressed (for example, we don't use printing presses, buggies, or muskets anymore), but that does not mean that we can just create new rights because it's good public policy.
  14. I get what you're saying but that position currently has 3.5 votes at SCOTUS
  15. yeah that's not what they're holding. They are holding that there is not and never has been a constitutional right to an abortion because it's not protected by the constitution because it is neither an enumerated right protected by the constitution nor is it one of the unenumerated rights that existed at the time of ratification. I'm not going to try and insult you but that's what the holding is/will be.
  16. an intentional oversimplification of textualism/originalism and how it works but you know that
  17. sure you are. You're saying there was a constitutional right to an abortion because Roe recognized such a right even though SCOTUS is now saying that Roe was wrongly decided because there never was a constitutional right to an abortion. Maybe we're just arguing semantics but the result is the same: SCOTUS is going to hold that there is no constitutional right to an abortion.
  18. begging the question overload SCOTUS is holding that Roe was wrongly decided and that there is not and never has been a right to an abortion
  19. Of course rights matter. The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to guard against two wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner. I don't dispute your point at all and I am deeply troubled by what will be obvious consequences of this decision. But at the same time there was no right to reproductive freedom at the time the Constitution was ratified, enumerated or otherwise.
  20. the syllabus of what?
  21. And whether Roe was rightly decided or not, this is a huge blow for stare decisis and signals to everybody that everything we thought was rock solid is now up to a majority vote at the Supreme Court without limitation.
  22. which is to say nothing about the policy issue. Abortion is good public policy in any number of ways.
  23. never was
  24. You're basically making Alito's point, which is that the Constitution does not protect these "reproductive rights," so the legislature should deal with them. The legislature has dealt with your other examples, on issues of employment, access to credit, spousal rape and abuse, etc. Why can it not deal with abortion as well, since there's no constitutionally-protected right to have one?
  25. Did your wife explain abortion to you, too? Maybe she could just post instead of you. Cut out the middle person.
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