Alito's majority opinion demolishes dissenting opinion from liberal justices: 'The absence of any serious discussion' - TheBlaze

Alito's majority opinion demolishes dissenting opinion from liberal justices: 'The absence of any serious discussion' - TheBlaze:

"The most striking feature of the dissent," Alito went on to write, "is the absence of any serious discussion of the legitimacy of the States’ interest in protecting fetal life.

"Our opinion is not based on any view about if and when prenatal life is entitled to any of the rights enjoyed after birth. The dissent, by contrast, would impose on the people a particular theory about when the rights of personhood begin," Alito explained.

"According to the dissent, the Constitution requires the States to regard a fetus as lacking even the most basic human right—to live—at least until an arbitrary point in a pregnancy has passed," he continued. "Nothing in the Constitution or in our Nation’s legal traditions authorizes the Court to adopt that 'theory of life.'"