In other words, the fetus is part of the woman’s body. Like a tumor? With DNA, half of which comes from a man? Or is it an intruder? Does this mean that a woman has a right to stand her ground, and summon deadly force if necessary? This “pro-choice” argument is as simplistic as many of the “anti-choice” arguments that…

Thank you, Semangeloph1, for your thoughtful contributions in this thread. One hope is that Neil Gorsuch, as an originalist and textualist, would resist attempts by the High Court to legislate from the bench. I do need, though, to give some more thought to possible breaches by “conservative” justices. Still, it’s hard…

Tom Scocca, you have overlooked another asymmetry. This is not “Republican judge versus Democratic judge” but textualist versus re-interpretationist, originalist and respecter of precedent versus activist. One contribution of “progressive” justices during the Obama administration was to increase the power of the…