reminded today of the pain and suffering of savita halappanwar, the 31 yr old woman in ireland who died from septicemia and multiorgan failure following being denied an abortion after asking several times for her pregnancy to be terminated
I’ve been sitting on this phrase all day as well, because Alito is rather explicitly saying that if you have historically been denied rights, you don’t really have any.
One of many frustrating points of analysis in the Alito draft is the insistence on specific traditions of rights protection at a time when protecting the rights of women was not a thing. (1/4)