![]() ![]() ![]() If the framers did not believe that the Constitution protected a woman's right to an abortion, then the Supreme Court should never recognize any such right either. No one argued that the authors of the Constitution intended for their words to prohibit states from regulating a woman's reproductive choices to Scalia, that ended theÄebate over whether the Supreme Court should protect a woman's right to choose. Original intent amounted to a proxy for the legal struggle over legalized abortion. Most justices thought that the words of the Constitution were to be interpreted in light of a variety of factors, beyond just the intentions of the framers. Meaning of the words did not evolve over time. Since Framers didn't allow abortion, the issue is settledÄ®dwin Meese, Reagan's attorney general, provided a framework for conservative critique when he called for a "jurisprudence of original intention." The words of the Constitution, he said, meant only what the authors of the document thought they meant the ![]()
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