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To: Torie
Roe v. Wade was based on "science."

Well, I think I know what you mean, but IMO it was based on a falsification of scientific truths, AKA LIES.

See in post 2: "After relating the biological facts of fetal development, the court stated that "those decisions which strike down state abortion statutes by equating contraception and abortion pay no attention to the facts of biology." From a Federal case THREE YEARS BEFORE ROE.
22 posted on 09/17/2004 10:13:38 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (Am I a part of the cure? Or am I part of the disease? Singing.... You are, you are, you are)
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To: cpforlife.org

So many of the "facts" depend on a piori assumptions about what stage of nascent human existence mandates some legal protection, or none. The courts are particularly ill suited to decide that one as a matter of law. If any issue demands being resolved in the public square via the ballot box it is this one. The "truth" is totally subjective, and thus in a democracy requires majority rule. I put "science" in quotes for a reason. It is a canard. Science may have some influence has to who we come to our a priori conclusions and how to weight the competing considerations, but it has no real relevance to the law, particularly constitutional law. To go there, is to fall into the abyss, as we have seen. The effect on the public square is akin to a toxic waste dump.


24 posted on 09/17/2004 10:21:10 PM PDT by Torie
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