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Wisconsin judge rules 1849 law doesn’t outlaw abortion
(thehill.com)
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How old do you think murder laws are?
Point made but those laws would be passed unanimously no matter the year, nobody wants to be murdered. Better point would be decency laws where it's crazy that men can be topless but women can't. Those laws are old too.
Okay, but you'll find that some laws are a bit more controversial than murder being bad.
Exhibit A: points vigorously all around
Those kind of obsolete laws tend to not be enforced either, and thrown out if they ever are, so it's not really a significant problem. It's important for economic and social stability that the law have some amount of stability and that we're not constantly revamping everything every decade or so.
Fun fact: it’s actually legal for women to be topless in New York due to a lawsuit over this very issue.
Yes, but abortion is also legal in some places that's why I used that as a better example.
I mean, you say "it's obvious" but we don't know it to be true unless people vote on it. "Obvious" to you can be "controversial" to somebody else (e.g. it depends on who is being killed and why).
There are many laws older than 100 years that we keep for good reason. Most of the US constitution, theft, land rights, etc. There's absolutely no reason to think negatively about a law simply based on how "old" it is. If people change their minds over time we pass new laws to reflect that. That's "how it works". You can't simply say "bah, that's an old weird law lets ignore it now."