If you’re going to talk about the intersection of abortion and race, it’s probably a good thing to start with the 14th amendment, says Melissa Murray, a legal scholar and law professor at New York University.
It is, after all, the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court interpreted to give women bodily autonomy — the privacy and liberty to make decisions about their own bodies.
But the 14th amendment wasn’t in the “original” draft of the U.S. Constitution.
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