hey, Supreme Court

you want to know why abortion isn’t in the Constitution?

because the Founding Fathers, who you seem to regard as immortal god-kings, would most likely have been okay with it. or at the very least, not thought about it much

in 18th-century England, and its colonies, abortion was widely seen as acceptable until “the quickening” (when the fetus could be felt moving in the womb). which generally happens around 16-20 weeks. based on data collected by the CDC in 2019, about 93% of abortions in the US take place well before then (source). the anti-abortion movement in the US didn’t really take off until the mid-19th century

that’s not to say there was no opposition to abortion, of course. no group is a monolith, and it was broadly quite a conservative time. denying that would be absurd. but the prevailing public opinion seems to have accepted the practice, and it was legal

not that we should be legislating based on history at all, but I think this comfortably proves that these absolute monsters are hypocrites in the bargain. and that they are somehow more conservative than a bunch of wealthy, white, landowning 18th-century men (who, if not enslavers themselves, almost certainly saw no moral conflict in befriending the same)