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To: AndyJackson
>> Sounds pretty good to me <<

The actual text of Justice Blackmun's Roe v. Wade "sounds pretty good" and "reasonable" on paper too. For example, he writes that doctors have the right to intervene to refuse abortion "around" the third trimester due to concerns for the life of the unborn child. He wrote:

The prevalence of high mortality rates at illegal "abortion mills" strengthens, rather than weakens, the State's interest in regulating the conditions under which abortions are performed. Moreover, the risk to the woman increases as her pregnancy continues. Thus, the State retains a definite interest in protecting the woman's own health and safety when an abortion is proposed at a late stage of pregnancy. The third reason is the State's interest -- some phrase it in terms of duty -- in protecting prenatal life. Some of the argument for this justification rests on the theory that a new human life is present from the moment of conception. [Footnote 45] The State's interest and general obligation to protect life then extends, it is argued, to prenatal life. Only when the life of the pregnant mother herself is at stake, balanced against the life she carries within her, should the interest of the embryo or fetus not prevail.

Sounds pretty good, right?

53 posted on 04/17/2018 1:35:34 PM PDT by BillyBoy (States rights is NOT a suicide pact.)
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To: BillyBoy

And it is not an issue Judge Grosuch has been called to rule upon

Your infantile hysteric non sequtor here just future provide the point you have utterly no clue what you are talking about here.


65 posted on 04/17/2018 2:39:45 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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