Analysis: Critics say gun, abortion rulings inconsistent

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : "We can debate about the meaning of the Second Amendment, but the Second Amendment does explicitly talk about the right to keep and bear arms, whereas the right to abortion access is not explicitly in the Constitution," he said.
60% : In both decisions, the majority makes the case that if a right is spelled out in the U.S. Constitution, the bar for any government regulation of that right is extremely high.
48% : The bulk of Justice Clarence Thomas' opinion on gun rights is devoted to history and what it says about the Founders' intentions when they crafted the Second Amendment and when lawmakers crafted the 14th Amendment on due process in the 1860s.
46% : The court majority's decisions on gun rights and the ruling a day later on abortion both rely on a philosophy of constitutional interpretation called "originalism."
42% : How can the court justify restricting the ability of states to regulate guns while expanding the right of states to regulate abortion?
41% : A number agree that, for all the controversy of the rulings, the majority justices at least followed a consistent legal theory in issuing the decisions on abortion and guns.
40% : Opponents of Roe v. Wade, the controversial 1973 ruling that upheld the right to abortion, say the Supreme Court back then did just what some accuse the majority justices of doing now, adapting and twisting legal arguments to fit political positions.
34% : "The hypocrisy is raging, but the harm is endless," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday after the court released its decision on abortion.
32% : They are the most fiercely polarizing issues in American life: abortion and guns.
31% : "Not only was there no support for such a constitutional right until shortly before Roe, but abortion had long been a crime in every single state," Alito wrote.
30% : The court corrected a historic wrong when it voided a right to abortion that has stood for nearly 50 years, former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday.

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