NY archdiocesan official analyzes abortion and state constitutions
February 14, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Edward Mechmann, Director of Public Policy for the Archdiocese of New York, writes that “13 states constitutionally guarantee abortion, eight explicitly do not. In the remaining 29 states, the question has not yet been decided.”
Mechmann cautioned that “terms like ‘liberty,’ ‘privacy,’ ‘autonomy,’ and ‘equal protection’ can be twisted and bent to mean almost anything if a [state] judge has total discretion to adapt them to contemporary (i.e., his own) values.”
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