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To: Wish2Post
Bastardy, creating children out of wedlock, was a common law crime:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_American_bastardy_laws
It is difficult to understand how anyone found a right to privacy in that, since there was none. Also note that one of the cases cited in Roe pertained to the forced sterilization of "idiots". Hopefully, it's dead now.
43 posted on 05/02/2022 7:35:58 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Dr. Franklin

“There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.” (Some judge in NJ back around 1910.)


55 posted on 05/02/2022 7:57:05 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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