Uhrm, yes. And a ruling determines the official interpretation of a law. So a ruling can determine what is and isn't legal.
Blah blah blah, opinion. Isn't relevant to the point: the right to privacy gave people abortion access before, legally unimpeded. They lost it when Roe was overturned. You can argue all you like that it was bad or good or whatever, but that's not what we were discussing. The right to privacy covered something legally. Then it didn't.
"Roe isn't really about the woman's choice, is it?" Ginsburg told the University of Chicago Law School in May 2013. "It's about the doctor's freedom to practice...it wasn't woman-centered, it was physician-centered."
Does this quote change either of the following facts:
Does that change either of the following facts:
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It wasn't their right. You can have access to something without it being your right.
When we discuss the 'right' to abortion, we are referring to the ability to access it without legal impediment. Besides which, it legally came under the right to privacy, so it was legally and officially considered included in that right for 30 years.
"This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment’s concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment’s reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a *woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.*"
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Blackmun concludes explicitly that “the decision vindicates the right of the physician to administer medical treatment according to his professional judgment.” In his view, “The abortion decision in all its aspects is inherently, and primarily, a medical decision, and basic responsibility for it must rest with the physician.”
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OK. Yet the ruling itself explicitly identifies the woman's decision as covered by the right to privacy.Blackmun concludes explicitly that “the decision vindicates the right of the physician to administer medical treatment according to his professional judgment.” In his view, “The abortion decision in all its aspects is inherently, and primarily, a medical decision, and basic responsibility for it must rest with the physician.”
Feminist scholars have long noticed — and criticized — the physician-centered rhetoric and logic of the Roe decision, and with good reason. There is something paternalistic and even subordinating about the notion that an implicitly male physician guides and perhaps controls a woman’s body.
That’s why my students are so surprised. They assume, reasonably enough, that Roe v. Wade is a landmark decision establishing a woman’s right to choose. Instead they find an opinion that transfers responsibility for the woman’s decision from the state to the physician — with the woman’s control over her own body almost an afterthought by the end of the opinion.
Doctors have the right to perform abortions
On Friday, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, R, vetoed a bill that would have effectively banned abortion in the state. The bill, which would have made performing the procedure a felony, was certainly unc…
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But, it's not...
I've quoted the text of the ruling itself quite clearly saying the /woman's/ choice is covered by the right to privacy.
