uphold a Civil War-era law that bans abortion.
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So just who was that to protect or serve?
Unborn babies?
Why was abortion an issue?
White masters and their black slaves?
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The Roe court held that since there were hardly any anti-abortion laws on the books until right after the Civil War, women had a right to abortion from the Revolutionary War until after the Civil War, which is nonsense. I doubt women in the young country were interested in killing their babies, who would help them with chores when they were old enough, and the boys would be able to help paw out in the field. So there was no need for laws concerning abortions at all back then. Abortion probably first became more widespread after the Civil War, due to increased urbanization and the industrial revolution, so states began to legislate. But that’s the house of straw, partially on which they built a “constitutional right” to an abortion, together with some other crap. Penumbras, and such.