...which is currently a constitutional right in the United States, not just a philosophical right.
I think that if/when Republicans are able to insert the government into doctor-patient relationships, into operating rooms, and literally into wombs, it will be the first time the US has gone backwards on a constitutional right.
This is what happens when you give democracy to land instead of people, I guess.
Like all constitutional rights, it's a right only because 5 Supreme Court justices say it is. The Constitution is infinitely malleable by the people whose job is to "interpret" it.
It is, somehow, even more anti-democratic than the thumb on the scale given to large but poorly-populated states. There is no appeal from it, and any temporary advantage in the other two branches approves decades-long appointments to the third. The Supreme Court now has a 2:1 majority control by one political party, and will do so for the rest of my life.
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[ 36.0 ms ] story [ 738 ms ] thread...which is currently a constitutional right in the United States, not just a philosophical right.
I think that if/when Republicans are able to insert the government into doctor-patient relationships, into operating rooms, and literally into wombs, it will be the first time the US has gone backwards on a constitutional right.
This is what happens when you give democracy to land instead of people, I guess.
It is, somehow, even more anti-democratic than the thumb on the scale given to large but poorly-populated states. There is no appeal from it, and any temporary advantage in the other two branches approves decades-long appointments to the third. The Supreme Court now has a 2:1 majority control by one political party, and will do so for the rest of my life.