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    11 months ago

    The 14th amendment also guarantees the right to seek medical treatment. Yet women are denied this right.

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      11 months ago

      The 14th amendment does not guarantee any sort of right to any specific healthcare.

      If it did, one assumes abortion proponents would have used that language in lieu of privacy as in Roe v Wade

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        11 months ago

        It’s not the right to healthcare. It’s the right to seek healthcare. Ie, they can’t deprive you of life or liberty without charging you. Restricting you from seeking healthcare deprives you of both.

        They used whichever they thought was more likely to get through SCOTUS.

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          Restricting you from seeking healthcare deprives you of both.

          This does not stand up to constitutional muster, is my point. The argument is that the government has a right to prevent certain things that could be healthcare, and that does hold water constitutionally.

          Like, I love your energy here but this is not the way to guarantee abortion/reproductive care access