I read the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling to see what we lost. Everyone should | Francine Prose

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : And there it is: a superbly rendered catalogue of the factors that come to mind when we consider the factors that will now determine whom Dobbs will hurt most: poverty, race, and life on the raw edges of human existence - an edge, one might say, on which every decision about abortion is made.
52% : One's philosophy, one's experiences, one's exposure to the raw edges of human existence, one's religious training, one's attitudes toward life and family and their values, and the moral standards one establishes and seeks to observe, are all likely to influence and to color one's thinking and conclusions about abortion.
41% : But all of that seems minor and forgivable beside the icy piety of Justice Alito's ruling, or compared to Justice Thomas's concurring opinion: his barely veiled threats about the future of same-sex marriage and legal contraception.
38% : What I admire most is how the ruling, at once profound and lyrical, describes the atmosphere surrounding the issue of abortion.
38% : In the 50 years between Roe and Dobbs, the US supreme court has forgotten that abortion does involve human beings making tough decisions at difficult points in their lives.
37% : The passage I admire most is the one in which Blackmun, at once profound and lyrical, describes the atmosphere surrounding the issue of abortion, the way our opinions are formed, and the pressures that the law must acknowledge and keep in balance.
34% : And the judges seem suspiciously quick to dismiss the notion that "these laws were the product of a Victorian social concern to discourage illicit sexual conduct" -and by extension the suggestion that a man's views on abortion might reflect a desire to control female sexuality.

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