Actress and activist Sophia Bush published an essay in Glamour on July 14 entitled, “Why the Right to an Abortion Matters for Every Person.” In it, she postulates many false ideas, including that the “right” to abortion stems from the 14th Amendment’s promulgation of the right to liberty – conveniently ignoring the fact that the 14th Amendment establishes the right to life for all persons under U.S. jurisdiction, including preborn human beings, and that it does not establish a right to liberty from the natural consequences of one’s actions. Bush claims that the rights to privacy and bodily autonomy protect the right to abortion, too, but these do not provide for or imply a right to kill other human beings (homicide).
She also claims that miscarriages are now “potential crime scenes” — something that was not the case before Roe , nor is it now .
But perhaps more disturbingly, Bush […]
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