#174 Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn*

Global Policy Watch: Woe Vs Raid<br/><br/><em>Insights on policy issues making news around the World </em><br/><br/>- <em>RSJ</em><br/><br/>On Friday, Justice Samuel Alito along with the conservative bloc of the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) overturned the landmark Roe v Wade judgment that had granted women a federal right to terminate a pregnancy about half a century ago. The conservative raid into the SCOTUS that started with the efforts of Bush Jr and concluded with Trump appointing three judges during his term has delivered to the great woe of the progressives. The learned judges searched for the word abortion in the Constitution. And to their surprise, they figured it just wasn't there. <br/><br/><a target="_blank" href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf">To quote</a>:<br/><br/>We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely&#8212;the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. That provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution, but any such right must be &#8220;deeply rooted in this Nation&#8217;s history and tradition&#8221; and &#8220;implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.&#8221;&#160;&#160;<br/><br/>The right to abortion does not fall within this category. Until the latter part of the 20th century, such a right was entirely unknown in American law. Indeed, when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, three quarters of the States made abortion a crime at all stages of pregnancy. The abortion right is also critically different from any other right that this Court has held to fall within the Fourteenth Amendment&#8217;s protection of &#8220;liberty.&#8221; Roe&#8217;s defenders characterize the abortion right as similar to the rights recognized in past decisions involving matters such as intimate sexual relations, contraception, and marria