If there’s a right to abortion in the constitution, then when was it ratified? Is there a record of the two-thirds roll call vote in both houses of Congress, and a list of the three-fourths of the states that ratified it?
I believe it immediately follows the part that states that there is a “wall” between church and state;)
Where in the Constitution did the people or the state cede their right to the federal legislative/administrative/judicial axis to rule on homosexual rights, or redefine marriage, or determine what is taught in our schools, or the requirement to teach evolution, or to tell a teacher they cannot bow their head at a football game, or any of another thousand rights the federal government has taken from the state and the people. What is heavens name happened to the 10th amendment. What does the Constittution say anywhere about abortion, or cloning, or any other issues than what they say. Where do they get off redefining the clear meaning of the 2nd amendment to mean a valdictorian of a graduating class cannot thank God or Jesus in a speech. How did it go this far from the original intent? They have stolen our constitution and vivisected our souls, and we don't even make a peep. Where did we go?
those not explicitly expressed or restricted by are reserved to the states or the people ...
the constitution does not express our rights... it enumerates a small portion of them.
teeman
Didn’t you read the fine print in the Constitution - I think it was the 8th Amendment - “And Congress Shall Grant the Inalienable Right to the People for the Killing of Harmless Babies En Masse.”
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I hope and pray that this Supreme Court comes to its senses and outlaws this totally barbaric and inhuman process.
I have a great deal of faith in Alito, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas. Kennedy is very iffy however.
Roe v. Wade was not decided on a right to an abortion or a right to privacy, but by a right to self defense.
This part of the Roe v. Wade decision has been completely ignored and buried over the years.
At that time, a woman was much more likely to die in childbirth or from complications of pregnancy than she was to die from a legal abortion.
The argument was that you can’t tell her she has to risk her life to bring the baby to term. That she IN CONSULATATION WITH HER DOCTOR was the one who should decide if she wanted to risk taking her pregnancy to term.
They have also ignored the in consultation with her doctor part of the decision, too.
The same can be said about the income tax.
Scalia is absolutely correct on this. This is a made up right by Harry Blackmun who conned his fellow justices - including Brennan - to go alont with him. I suspect that Brennan may not have realized how much devastation Roe would cause. Blackmun, however, is a major villain in this.
Well what Roe v. Wade said was that there was a Constitutional right to privacy, and that anti-abortion laws violated that. But Justice Scalia is still right. Nowhere does the Constitution explicitly guarantee your right to privacy and he has stated several times that he does not believe the right exists. Under that interpretation medical records, doctor's conversations, what have you are not protected. But the court has ruled in several cases that there is an implied right to privacy from an interpretation of the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 9th Amendments. Roe v. Wade took this interpretation to a whole new level.