The three line between these two is controlling women.

And the eugenics movement wanted to control women and tell them which ones were fit to reproduce.

The abortion laws wanted to control women and tell them that they have to bring a child

to term that.

That's the connection.

It's the opposite of the connection that Thomas is making.

Hi and welcome back to Amica Slates Podcast about the law and the rule of law and the

US Supreme Court.

I'm Dahlia Lithquick.

I cover those things for Slate.

And we're rounding up toward the end of the Supreme Court term which will end in the

end of June and the blockbuster decisions.

To the extent we have any, we'll come in next few weeks.

But on this week's show, we wanted to continue a conversation we started on the last show

with Professor Melissa Murray and Joan Biscupic.

It was a conversation about abortion rights at the Supreme Court.

Last week in Box v. Planned Parenthood, a case out of Indiana that had to do with some

new restrictions on abortion, the Supreme Court initially issued a pretty mild ruling

on the merits.

We'll get to that.

But Clarence Thomas, in a 20 page concurring opinion, pretty much rocked the culture wars

with a discussion comparing essentially abortion to eugenics.

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