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To be honest I am pretty fine with it. For a few reasons:

1) Abortion (in my opinion) should not be a constitutional right. I can't name a country that has abortion as a constitutional right. More generally: the constitution should care about super-general, universally-agreed values, let's leave everything else to the legislative branch!

2) Roe v. Wade was a bad decision. Before you downvote me, read the 14th Amendment: how the judges could infer from it at the time a right to abortion is beyond me! I can squint my eyes a lot, but the right is simply not there!

Edit: downvoters, go read the 14th Amendment, and tell me if you can honestly read a right to abortion in there.



> More generally: the constitution should care about super-general, universally-agreed values, let's leave everything else to the legislative branch!

See: The 2nd amendment.


Indeed, even though I generally support guns rights, I think they should be regulated by state law.

However, notice the difference: the 2nd Amendment is extremely clear in granting the right to bear arms, whereas the 14th Amendment needs to be twisted in an almost comical way to get out of it a right to abortion.




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