Prejudice Rules

LRB Contributors: After Roe v. Wade, 21 July 2022

... Bracton also says if you find a whale washed up on the beach, you should send the head to the king and the tail to the queen.The court argues that, at the time of its drafting, the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment would not have viewed abortion as a right but as a crime. Their appeal to history is astonishing. Partly because the history is ...