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Re:Originalism Is Dead. Long Live Catholic Natural Law by ggm on Saturday March 27, 2021 @08:08PM (#26606839)
This bodes extremely badly for women's reproductive autonomy.
Re:Originalism Is Dead. Long Live Catholic Natural Law by smt88 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @09:15PM (#26607185)
> women's reproductive autonomy

...which is currently a constitutional right in the United States, not just a philosophical right.

I think that if/when Republicans are able to insert the government into doctor-patient relationships, into operating rooms, and literally into wombs, it will be the first time the US has gone backwards on a constitutional right.

This is what happens when you give democracy to land instead of people, I guess.

Re:Originalism Is Dead. Long Live Catholic Natural Law by jfengel on Monday March 29, 2021 @10:33AM (#26622214)
Like all constitutional rights, it's a right only because 5 Supreme Court justices say it is. The Constitution is infinitely malleable by the people whose job is to "interpret" it.

It is, somehow, even more anti-democratic than the thumb on the scale given to large but poorly-populated states. There is no appeal from it, and any temporary advantage in the other two branches approves decades-long appointments to the third. The Supreme Court now has a 2:1 majority control by one political party, and will do so for the rest of my life.