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To: Brilliant

That’s not what Roe stands for, hence, that’s why abortion has been regulated since Roe. (parental notification, 24 hr waiting period, etc.).

“most laws against abortion in the United States violated a constitutional right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Notice, most, not all.

Most importantly, there is a late term exclusion inherent in its holding. “The central holding of Roe v. Wade was that abortions are permissible for any reason a woman chooses, up until the “point at which the fetus becomes ‘viable,’ that is, potentially able to live outside the mother’s uterus, albeit with artificial aid.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v_wade

Your main point though, “Americans don’t have a clue what Roe v. Wade means” was proven right by your post, no offense.


17 posted on 10/15/2007 4:50:11 PM PDT by enough_idiocy (www.daypo.net/test-iraq-war.html)
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To: enough_idiocy

Read the case. Parental notification was considered to be such a pitifully minor “regulation” that it did not count. But any significant regulation of the “right” of abortion is prohibited. And I would also point out that the courts have even been very prolific in striking down even parental notification laws.


18 posted on 10/15/2007 4:53:45 PM PDT by Brilliant
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