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Heard this new talking point from Daschle and others and damn near put my foot thru the tv tube. These people are unreal.
This remark by the author, leads me to believe, the author has not read Roe v Wade.
I would suggest that it is not a "loose contructionist" decicsion to suggest that all citizens have a "right to privacy."
It could be argued that it is a bit "loose constructionist" to decide that the right of privacy emanates from the 14th amendment versus the 9th amendment. But the bottom line is the right to privacy does exist.
What is "loose constructionist" is to deny the humanenss of an embryo and a non-viable, fetus, characterizing it as nothing more than tissue of a women's body, the equivalent of her eye, arm, or kidney, which then wrongly allows a women unilateral control over that human that exists within her uterus and an abortion decision by the women then denies the 5th amendment right of that unborn person.
That is what is wrong about Roe v Wade.
I heard that quote from Scummer - it got played as a sound bite. But I had an entirely different interpretation of it.
He was trying to steal rhetoric from the "right-wingers" - trying to accuse us of doing that of which we've always (and accurately) accused the Left.
He thinks he's cute... but he's not cute. He's just a filthy little monkey... (Which 60's humorist was it, that made that comment about a political opponent? hmmm...).
Anyway... If you read the rest of what Scummer said, with the notion that he's just trying to accuse his "enemies" of doing exactly that of which they're accusing him and his friends, it all falls into place. No need to speculate on his being a conservative (or any other multicellular life form, for that matter).
Actually, maybe I'm giving him *too* much credit - maybe it's just out-and-out projection, in the true leftist tradition of accusing one's enemies of that which one does oneself, by way of justifying one's actions to oneself. But I'm in a charitable mood tonight, so I'm willing, despite acknowledging that he's probably a bacterium or an amoeba, to credit him with deliberately reversing the accusation we level at the left, as a rhetorical device.