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[theweaselking]

The argument: The "the law must apply equally to all persons" clause of the US constitution doesn't apply to women, because they're not people!
The reason the argument makes news: Because it's a US Supreme Court Justice making it.

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[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Well, we've known since the Middle Ages that women don't have souls and the having of a soul is a prerequisite for being a person. QED

[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

And therefore, by logical extension, abortion is a greater crime than allowing the mother to die, because the foetus might be male, and therefore have a soul, and therefore be more of a human being than its mother.






I hate humans.

[cacahuate.livejournal.com]

Hilariously, conservatives also often argue that because we have the equal protection clause, we don't need and shouldn't have the ERA.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Scalia has argued that before, himself!

[cacahuate.livejournal.com]

Great!

You ought to dig that up and put the two quotes together.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No, no, you misunderstand.

Scalia argues that the ERA is unnecessary because *women do not need protection*.

He doesn't cite the 14th as protecting them, specifically. He's leaves that to be INFERRED.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

Scalia doesn't even pretend anymore - that scares me, that there's no need to fear retribution for blatant, ignorant partisanship anymore.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

BRB, channeling Hothead Paisan.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Whwere's the clause where he cna be replaced for being a bliothering, bigoted fool? And if there isn't one, why isn't there one?

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

We missed our chance when Antonin "Quack Quack" Scalia failed to get impeached for the incident that allows me to call him Antonin "Quack Quack" Scalia.

Granted, Cheney's orbital mind control lasers (plus the permanently cowed House and Senate) were in full swing at the time.