Abortion as Self-Defense vs Abortion as Healthcare

Current Texas law forces doctors to choose the rights of an undocumented non-citizen fetus over the right to life and self-defense of citizen mothers. Roe v Wade fell 5 years ago and it’s not coming back. The abortion as healthcare argument has failed and is actively getting women hurt and killed today. Instead, we should look for other rights that abortion falls under that have actual court precedents. The healthcare argument will not gain any traction over the next 4 years. ...

November 27, 2024 · 2 min · 422 words · A. Blinken

What are rights?

What are rights in America? We discuss the rights of people in America more than in any other country on Earth, it seems. But this conversation is almost instantly muddied because people use different definitions for what rights are. This leads to people on both sides of the aisle simply talking past each other. In particular, the conversation about what rights people have is doubly-muddied once the American Constitution and Bill of Rights are thrown into the mix. ...

September 11, 2024 · 4 min · 817 words · A. Blinken