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I don't see the word "abortion" in the comment you replied to, was it edited?

I'm all for eschewing flamebait, but in this case you're being part of the problem.

Nope, you’re just missing out on the recent major rulings around abortion. A huge talking point was what rights are provided by the constitution.

A nit (not really), but the Constitution doesn't provide rights, it enumerates them. Rights in the United States are granted by our Creator.

> A nit (not really), but the Constitution doesn't provide rights, it enumerates them.

It absolutely does provide legal rights. The fact that some of the people involved choose to have it do so because they believed those rights to be inherent moral rights is interesting background knowledge, as is the fact that some subset of those people thought that the origin of those rights was some divine creator, but neither is particularly important. All laws ultimately rest on the lawmakers’ beliefs about values, so the fact that that is also true of the US Constitution isn't some consequential observation.

The constitution contains neither the words "God" or "Creator". Where does it explain that our rights come from a creator rather than from society as a whole agreeing on communal rights

Is this a way to say parts of the US are now a theocracy?

Evolution grants rights?

Thanks for insulting me, but I did read the recent major ruling, which was about a lot more than abortion.

And to circle back: I didn't bring up abortion.

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