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Re:Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move ... by lazide on Saturday June 25, 2022 @12:57PM (#31876806)
1) there was never a federal constitutional right to an abortion. Everyone historically knew Roe vs Wade was a stopgap with tortured reasoning in the actual judgement. There is nothing in the constitution that says ‘rights to whatever medical procedures you want’, or even abortion. Instead the presumption is that everything not mentioned is left to the People and the States to regulate.

2) this ruling doesn’t change that for the states most people live in, Abortion is still legal, and has been legal. And hopefully folks in the other states get less complacent and make their voices heard.

It’s a devolution of the issue to the states. Which sucks for a lot of folks, especially young women with few options. But it isn’t banning abortion nation wide or anything.

If anything, this is now way more like Europe.

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