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Old 06-26-22, 01:20 PM   #3555
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Originally Posted by Kptlt. Neuerburg View Post
I also wanted to ask this, if Roe V. Wade was a ruling made by the SCOTUS does that actually make the ability for women to get an abortion a "constitutional right"? Was that right ever codified into law in either the Constitution or the Bill of Rights? Because if it wasn't then it's not a constitutional right at all.

Roe v Wade held that the right to abortion was protected under the 14th Amendment. That was rather a stretch though and it should have been codified into law by Congress soon after the ruling but they never did.
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