Editor:
Though Pennsylvania no longer has a helmet law for motorcycle riders, imagine a court ruled that the intent of the law was for helmets to also be worn in cars and trucks due to the motor vehicle similarities. Then a later court ruling determined that the law in question only applied to motorcycles, any similarities to cars and trucks notwithstanding.
Would we refer to the ruling reversal as a repeal of helmet laws for cars and trucks? Of course not.
Yet The Associated Press refers to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision as a repeal of abortion rights. Others say the court took away the 50-year right to an abortion.
But no constitutional rights were repealed; there is only a new interpretation that the still intact rights should never have been interpreted as abortion rights in the first place.
For all we know, all nine Supreme Court justices may vote as private citizens to add abortion rights to our Constitution in the future, or for abortion to be a right in their respective states.
Personally supporting the principle of a right to abortion does not empower judges to add to the Constitution what isn’t there.
Glenn Shrom
Upper Bern Township
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