Commentary: Constitutionally, the right to abortion isn’t something made of nothing
A case currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court may result in the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Opponents of abortion rights would celebrate this outcome for many reasons. One is their belief that Roe constitutes a grievous legal mistake because the right to abortion has no grounding in the Constitution’s text.
But the claim that the Supreme Court invented this right out of whole cloth is wrong since there are multiple textual bases for abortion rights.
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