# When it comes to abortion, how much restriction is excessive?

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**Created:** [May 29, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-it-comes-to-abortion-how-much-restriction-is-excessive/815077 "2018-05-29T18:25:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-it-comes-to-abortion-how-much-restriction-is-excessive/815077/6 "2018-05-29T19:28:17Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> [SCOTUS decided not to take up the challange](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-wont-take-up-challenge-to-restrictive-arkansas-abortion-law/2018/05/29/43c387ac-6345-11e8-99d2-0d678ec08c2f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.dee2dd80272d) to Arkansa’s very restrictive abortion law, which outlaws morning-after pills and effective closes two of the last three clinics left in the state. In what possible way does this not put an undue burden on a woman’s right to choose in that state?

You tell me. A year ago:

> [@Is "The right to Choose" real without reasonable access?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-right-to-choose-real-without-reasonable-access/785722/33):
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> > [@Is "The right to Choose" real without reasonable access?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-right-to-choose-real-without-reasonable-access/785722/16):
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> > I _knew_ I shouldn’t have used a gun analogy. :smack:  
> > If we could please not hijack this, and get back on topic…Do you still have a right to an abortion, if you cannot exercise that right within reasonable means and/or have to travel out-of-state?
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> Not a hijack.Why do you think more stringent rules should apply to a specifically enumerated right than one which exists due to judicial precedent?

You never answered this, at least as far as I recall. You seemed to want to discuss the shining respect you had for rights only when they applied to abortion, and not rights deriving from the Second Amendment.

Is that still your approach?

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