[bvw]

"The so-called right to privacy could only be based here [Amendment IV]. "

A strong objection to the Bill of Rights was that by containing an enumeration of rights, it would: (1) eventually protect only those rights and any the non-enumerated right -- ALL of which are reserved to the people -- would be at risk and degraded. And (2) by being a enumeration it implied that individual rights are an enumerable. They are not.

It is the authority we allowed our Federal Goverment in that charter, the Constitution, which is enumerated, and limited to those powers that we then enumerated and later added to.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Whatever the political reasoning, don't forget that we can't call the operation a success if the patient died.

[HiTech RedNeck]

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,..."

Would it help to restore the balance if this amendment was re-amended to include "LIVES" among the list of the things the people have a right to be secure in?

[Theodore R.]

That was the argument that Washington and Hamilton gave in opposing a Bill of Rights. But Madison, "the father of the Constitution" won the day. RI and NC said that they would not join the union without a Bill of Rights.

[Annie03]

So, killing the unborn, infirm, ill & disabled is a privacy issue, in your opinion. Which supercedes the above persons right to life. Is this your position or am I misreading you?