by Dylan Basescu | Oct 3, 2024 | Reproductive Rights, Right to Privacy
This work is a continuation of: Heroes Born of Women: Abortion, Servitude, and a People’s Originalism, Installation I. Installation I sets out the method of people’s originalism and discusses the challenges faced by originalist methodologies. This second installation...
by Dylan Basescu | Oct 3, 2024 | Reproductive Rights, Right to Privacy
In the last fifty years, originalism has gone from being an obscure academic theory to making national headlines. Notably, the United States Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization[1] relied on the originalist methodology of original public...
by Jonathan Schneider | Jul 19, 2024 | Reproductive Rights, Right to Privacy
Lost arguments are not grounds to overrule a case. When proponents of those arguments, greater now in number on the Court, return to fight old battles anew, it betrays an unrestrained disregard for precedent. It fosters the People’s suspicions that “bedrock principles...
by Jonathan Schneider | Jun 24, 2024 | Reproductive Rights, Right to Privacy
Series Introduction (1) In light of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization’s life-altering consequences, discussing abortion’s legal history as far back as the 13th century risks turning what many consider a simple question of bodily autonomy into an overly...