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And also again....please show an example of the conservative justices being activists? And no....supporting and upholding the Constitution is not activism...that's their job. People deciding the Constitution is trash and outdated doesnt somehow make supporting the foundation of the country "activism".
Abortion - one example.
Abortion wasn't even illegal in the United States when the Constitution was written as it was practised by 18th Century midwives in North America.
So...if a person interprets the Constitution it 'ought to be' interpreted, then technically abortion should be legal.
A Strict 'Constitutionalist' would say abortion should be legal
So where in the Constitution does it say we can deprive another human being of life?
This is the same logic that was used for Dred Scott that black people were not person's or citizens and couldnt be included in the Constitution.
So you think abolitionists and Republicans have always been activists then? For abolition and the 15th amendment? Womens suffrage too?
But in 18th century America they didnt see the fetus as a person or 'human life'. And there was no prohibition of this practice according to their laws.
So if someone reinterprets the constitution they are technically 'activist'.
They also didnt see women or black people as person's.
Who reinterpreted the Constitution? You are talking about amendments that ensure the equal rights of Americans as "reinterpreted"?
Btw the first feminists opposed abortion. They absolutely regarded humans in utero as alive and human.