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When President Joe Biden said that the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the matter of Roe v. Wade removed a constitutional right from women, he put his finger on precisely what was at issue—getting the answer wrong, of course, with his almost infallible nose for error.
Irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the deliberate termination of pregnancy, it seems to me obvious that the Constitution of the United States has to be tortured by dishonest rationalization to yield women’s universal right to abortion. On this matter, as on most subjects, the Constitution and its amendments is silent. It no more grants a right to abortion than it grants a right to a new car every year. On the most unbiased reading, it leaves it to the states to legislate on the question….
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