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Samuel Bray

Girgis: A Thought on Equal-Protection Arguments for Abortion Rights

My colleague and friend Sherif Girgis has sent me the following thoughts on the Equal Protection Clause and the momentous abortion case on the Supreme Court's docket.

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The leaked Dobbs draft spends pages arguing that abortion is not a deeply rooted unwritten right.  That's had me thinking more about the most powerful alternative argument:  that abortion rights follow from the enumerated right to equal protection.  I want to float a thought on this family of views.

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