Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker asserts that abortion-on-demand is not a constitutional right according to scholars.
- In plain terms
- The Constitution does not grant a right to abortion.
- What can you take from it?
- Base rights arguments on constitutional text.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What does the Constitution protect?
- How do scholars interpret rights?
Another view
It ignores evolving judicial interpretations of rights.
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