“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes. The entire draft opinion can be read below:
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No scenario is ever a precisely "equivalent" scenario. The trick is to find analogies and through that bring clarity to the discussion. You claim there is a major difference basically due to emotional distress of the murderer. That is certainly a mitigating factor that could argue for diminished capacity in some instances, but it absolutely does not legally change the crime that has been committed.
My point is we do not need to make any special laws for this. We already have everything we need in the existing justice system. It is simply murder no matter how you look at it. We should not treat murder due to abortion any different than any other murder. Murder of anyone already has a plethora of case law that can be argued by the defendant in cases of diminished capacity. And certainly, if someone is an accessory to murder they can and should be charged as well.
Trying to claim that murder by abortion is somehow a different thing than murder by other weapons is not a legally defensible position in my opinion.