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Almost every serious non-partisan legal scholar agrees that Roe v. Wade is on tenuous legal footing. It's purely a logical argument, and it doesn't follow very well from the Constitution. We have a very simple mechanism to rectify this: amend the Constitution. But that ship has long sailed, and the problem now is stare decisis†, which complicates things further. So there's a very real justification for keeping Roe in spite of its shortcomings. But that's neither here nor there.

The issue isn't that people don't understand arguments, it's that they misrepresent them. A rational, reasoned, mature, back-and-forth debate on abortion won't get you views and clicks, so of course no one does it. Panem et circenses.

† And of course Casey, which reaffirmed Roe.

parent dvt 4 years ago

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