Robert C. Koehler: Choice without shackles
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Jun 29, 2022
4 minutes
“The inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions. On the contrary, an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment persisted from the earliest days of the common law until 1973.”
What could be more convincing than that? The words are part of majority opinion in the recent SCOTUS ruling overturning a woman’s right to an abortion. Apparently human evolution stopped in . . .1789.We — in particular, women, people of color — are prisoners of the past, when slavery was the law of the land, when
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