Dr. Doniger, Constitutional scholar

Allahpundit's quote of the day from last night over at Hot Air comes from one Wendy Doniger, a perfesser of religious history at the University of Chicago, and it has to do with Wendy casting aspersions on Sarah Palin's womanhood. That's interesting, sure, but I'm more interested in Doniger's Constitutional scholarship:

Joe Biden's views are most relevant to the question at hand, since, as a Catholic, he shares much of Palin's embryological theology: he believes life begins at conception. But he has gone out of his way to insist that he would not impose his personal views on others, and has indeed voted against curtailing abortion rights and against criminalizing abortion. That is the right answer. It's in the Constitution. It's not in the Bible, or the Qu'ran, or the Bhagavad Gita. It's in the mother-lovin' Constitution.

Really? Where in the "mother-lovin' Constitution" is abortion mentioned? To which amendment are you referring?

Look, I'm not much of a social-con. I've never been married, and I've never been in a serious relationship where a baby might come into play, so I feel like I don't have much to say on a personal level about abortion.

That said, I think the legal reasoning behind Roe v. Wade was atrocious, and it should be left to the States. Some people here might disagree, but we're truly the "Big Tent" Party. And I think we're the people who believe, ultimately, in the idea that Supreme Court Justices should be "Strict Constructionists," and not the kind of people who believe that one of our founding documents is open to whatever the hell we want it to be.

So, really, Prof. Doniger, when you want to give me a lesson on Hindu theology (and it seems you may not be the expert I want to consult) instead of Constitutional Law, let's hang out.

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