Roe Vs Wade Overturned

[Dill]

(08-12-2023, 03:26 PM)pally Wrote: The Texas AG is asserting that the child had no right to life under the federal constitution, even though he argued the opposite in challenges against Texas abortion laws.

[color=rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9)]"This would not be the first time that the state has sought to claim to support the right to life of all fetuses, yet to act quite differently when it comes to protecting the health and safety of such fetuses other than in the very narrow area of prohibiting abortions," Hermer said.[/color]

Rather than always trying to understand the abortion issue as about a genuine question of whether a fetus is a person, perhaps it is better to look at the complex structure of laws now being built around anti-abortion law primarily in terms of the kinds of social control in enables over both women's bodies and the medical profession, and for whom that control is enabled.

I'm not doubting the sincerity of the vast majority of people who are anti-abortion, but the legal engineering around the issue to extend state control beyond states and the like, plus convenient exceptions like the above, suggest a rather larger "agenda" than just saving unborn lives. 

What that agenda might be I'm not sure, but it seems possible that enforcing a specific religious identity might be part of it, though people of different religious backgrounds might have very different ideas about what that should be. Just speculating here.