There’s no ‘right’ to abortion in the Constitution. We knew that.

But over time, a lot of the population forgot it, and the steady ‘drip’ of rhetoric in news reporting that consistently refers to ‘abortion rights’ only reinforces the mindset that there really is some such profoundly established right.

Justice Antonin Scalia readjusts that thinking for anyone still confused.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia attended Catholic celebratory events on Monday and gave a speech at Villanova Law School’s Second Annual John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics & Culture. He reconfirmed his belief that the so-called right to abortion is found nowhere in the Constitution.

He said that notion is not guided by his Catholic views but by his understanding of the Constitution and his perspective as a “strict originalist” and “legal positivist.”

“Not everything you may care about is in the Constitution,” he told the audience, according to a report in The Bulletin newspaper. “It is a legal document that had compromises in it. What it says it says; what it doesn’t say it doesn’t say.”

“I don’t agree we are in an era of narrow constitutional interpretation. There are still sweeping decisions out there,” Scalia added.

“Roe v. Wade is one. There is nothing in the Constitution about the right to abortion,” the associate justice explained.

Seems like a good time to bring this back.