Alito’s draft abortion decision is brilliantly persuasive

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Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision in the Dobbs abortion case is a powerfully argued legal masterpiece throughout, but its central point is made in just 25 words on page 15.

To wit: “Until the latter part of the 20th Century, there was no support in American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. Zero. None.”

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