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Letter: High court is stuck in the past

By Vicky Rhodes, Vancouver
Published: July 28, 2022, 6:00am

Justice Thomas claims (falsely) that there was no 19th-century precedent for abortion. He now wants to use this argument to go after contraception. Well, sir, there is no 19th-century precedent for the use of ED drugs, or any commercially available prescription medications, antibiotics or vaccines. What about automobiles, airplanes or nuclear submarines? They were definitely not available in the mid-19th century.

There is no 19th-century precedent for a Black man to serve as a Supreme Court justice, certainly not one married to a white woman. And remember that slavery was the rule of the land for a longer period of time than it has been illegal.

Using your own religious bias as a basis for your decisions is inappropriate. It will come back and haunt you in the end.

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