Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readMay 6, 2022

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As I commented in James Knight's excellent essay on how this harms women's health, https://medium.com/rogues-gallery/the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states-and-the-republican-party-are-willingly-putting-the-lives-of-cd6279c8288e , it is unfortunate that the pro-choice movement fell asleep at the wheel after Roe was decided (see NYT column from last year that I read yesterday--here's a guest link that anyone should be able to access https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/opinion/abortion-planned-parenthood-naral-roe-v-wade.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuomT1JKd6J17Vw1cRCfTTMQmqxCdw_PIxftm3iWna3HPDm4biOMNAo6B_EGKbKBkfccy2DLeXNtINrkiSLlqx_VSOVBtTA6k552Ngp0BZj8ypMetG3w_05-LXaw99XWiSFiFH9pF5e_1uQOaYn_3COeZiSd_cBA1pcYyJ1_-iWgNlKuUDuJ0itRh1folVIRxEjdWMXaMu_K_Cx5uKZ7ROEGnnwozWOBaXzjZlMfNqO5TNVUPVi-VCS938m0-69hDOd8IPaqZLhYoe8H2gr95GXU_Zc7yRMV3H96I4u0s5b3dqhWMy960wOE0EchWvLDEsWW6NjU_WQDs6UricsZT0htfUtpNPx4&smid=url-share ) and that Senators were so easily duped by nominees who said they would respect stare decisis with respect to Roe despite all their public statements to the contrary and that Roe and all the other privacy rights cases (contraception/sodomy/etc) were built on the weak foundation of a dubious constitutional right to privacy instead of what these cases really should turn on, which is that elevating through legislation certain religious beliefs over others violates the 1st Amendment's anti-establishment clause https://medium.com/p/4d234daa2e71 (that's my essay) and that Congress did nothing for 50 years to codify Roe into legislation

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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