California Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law,
Health Care & Hospital Law,
U.S. Supreme Court
Jul. 19, 2022
The Court in Dobbs got history wrong – California got it right
History is the core of the decision in Dobbs and that court failed to thoroughly examine it, in contrast to California.
I write to remind us all that the California Supreme Court, in 1969, established “the fundamental right of the woman to choose whether to bear children” and that right was established under the California Constitution. People v Belous, 71 Cal. 2d 954 (1969). I also write to bring to light the historical record that was reviewed by our Supreme Court and which was left unexamined by the decision in Dobbs.
In Belous, four years before Roe, th...
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