{"id":31857,"date":"2022-05-03T18:27:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T22:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31857"},"modified":"2022-05-03T18:33:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T22:33:37","slug":"supreme-court-abortion-overturn-draft-cites-sir-matthew-hale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31857","title":{"rendered":"Alito The Obscure"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/jezebel.com\/supreme-court-roe-v-wade-draft-cites-sir-matthew-hale-1848872890\">In case you<\/a> needed any further proof that the modern anti-abortion movement is an outgrowth of many centuries of virulent misogyny and violence against women, Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s leaked opinion draft striking down Roe v. Wade relies heavily on a 17th century English jurist who had two women executed for \u201cwitchcraft,\u201d wrote in defense of marital rape, and believed capital punishment should extend to kids as young as 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo treatises by Sir Matthew Hale,\u201d Alito wrote in his argument to end legal abortion across America, \u201cdescribed abortion of a quick child who died in the womb as a \u2018great crime\u2019 and a \u2018great misprision.\u2019 See M. Hale, Pleas of the Crown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How interesting that Alito would cite Pleas of the Crown! That\u2019s the text, published in 1736, 60 years after Hale\u2019s death, that defended and laid the foundation for the marital rape exemption across the world. Let\u2019s go straight to the text:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract the wife hath given up herself in this kind unto her husband which she cannot retract,\u201d Hale wrote. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/contract.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"743\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/contract.jpg 743w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/contract-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/contract-624x420.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you needed any further proof that the modern anti-abortion movement is an outgrowth of many centuries of virulent misogyny and violence against women, Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s leaked opinion draft striking down Roe v. Wade relies heavily on a 17th century English jurist who had two women executed for \u201cwitchcraft,\u201d wrote in defense of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31857"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31865,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31857\/revisions\/31865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}