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That's just a classic prolife talking point. The right to abortion is covered under the liberty clause of the 14th amendment, and overturning Planned Parenthood v Casey weakens that clause. This means the court is setting up to allow states much more freedom to restrict individual liberties. Why conservatives are okay with this I don't know, I guess authoritarians are okay with losing freedoms as long as they're in power.



>That's just a classic prolife talking point.

well, it was an amendment introduced after the civil war to prohibit slavery on a constitutional level but then 100 years later some un-elected supreme court justices decided that it's also about making abortion a fundamental right. Maybe it's a classic because it's a good point?

>This means the court is setting up to allow states much more freedom to restrict individual liberties

The actual quote is "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;", i think it's a pretty big stretch to say that they meant that states can't make things illegal,especially since it follows up with "without due process of law". Plenty of other things have been outlawed both before and after this ruling.

> This means the court is setting up to allow states much more freedom to restrict individual liberties. Why conservatives are okay with this I don't know, I guess authoritarians are okay with losing freedoms as long as they're in power.

As I said above, 14A hasn't prevented people from losing liberties, except in this one narrow instance. The reason they're okay with losing this liberty is because they're concerned that unborn fetuses should be considered as human lives. Whether or not this is correct is debatable, but the point is that if they are considered as such then abortion could be outlawed for the same reason murder is outlawed.




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