{"id":288427,"date":"2018-07-05T06:27:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T10:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=288427"},"modified":"2018-07-05T08:34:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T12:34:37","slug":"pro-choice-advocate-let-roe-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2018\/07\/pro-choice-advocate-let-roe-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-choice advocate: Let Roe go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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From Megan McArdle in\u00a0The Washington Post:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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I am myself uneasily pro-choice. Moreover,\u00a0just a few days ago<\/a>, I argued that the increasingly bitter judicial wars tearing apart today\u2019s politics can only be ended with more judicial deference to legislatures and to precedent. It stands to reason that I would be dismayed by the politically electrifying prospect that\u00a0Roe<\/em>\u00a0might be overruled entirely. But I wouldn\u2019t be dismayed. I\u2019d be glad to see\u00a0Roe<\/em>\u00a0go, as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

How can someone who calls herself pro-choice oppose\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/em>? Let me count the ways.<\/p>\n

The decision itself is a poorly reasoned mess. It failed to mount a convincing case that the Constitution contains language that can be read as guaranteeing a woman\u2019s right to abort her pregnancy. Nor have the subsequent courts that amended and extended\u00a0Roe<\/em>managed to come up with a constitutional justification; it\u2019s all \u201cemanations and penumbras<\/a>\u201d and similarly float-y language that did little to convince opponents that\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/em>\u00a0was a good or necessary ruling. Even many liberal supporters of a constitutional right to abortion have voiced concerns about the way the Burger Court got us there; those critics include\u00a0Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That poor drafting\u00a0quasi-accidentally<\/a>\u00a0left America with some of the\u00a0most permissive abortion laws in the world<\/a>, far beyond what most legislatures would permit if the matter were open to public debate. Today, the United States is one of\u00a0only a handful<\/a>\u00a0of countries to allow elective abortions after the 20th gestational week.<\/p>\n

And that, in turn, is the biggest problem with\u00a0Roe<\/em>: It has given the\u00a0most religious developed country in the world<\/a>\u00a0one of the world\u2019s most permissive abortion laws. This is not some peculiar quirk of the American political psyche. The abortion law is out of step with\u00a0what the majority of the population wants<\/a>, and given the seriousness of what\u2019s involved, it is\u00a0Roe<\/em>, more than any other opinion, that is driving both the radicalization and the judicialization of American politics, as pro-lifers fight like caged tigers to amend the law through the only avenue left open to them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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