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Erasing women

Why are feminists destroying feminism?

9 July 2022

9:00 AM

9 July 2022

9:00 AM

The decision of the United States’ Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade exemplifies that, for too long, women have taken their rights for granted. Roe was always at risk; its precarious, loose reasoning, predicated on the implications of decisional privacy, was not explicitly protected by the American constitution. In 1992, Justice Bader Ginsburg, writing extra curially, said that Roe ‘halted a political process that was moving in a reform direction and thereby… prolonged divisiveness and deferred stable settlement of the issue… the decision represented the exercise of raw judicial power… [and] imposed on the entire country a detailed set...

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