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To: wideawake
The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees all persons the equal protection of the laws.

Then why haven't the courts overturned Roe?

12 posted on 10/19/2007 12:45:04 PM PDT by Puddleglum
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To: Puddleglum
Then why haven't the courts overturned Roe?

The moral cowardice engendered by the iron hand of precedent.

17 posted on 10/19/2007 12:51:41 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: Puddleglum
Then why haven't the courts overturned Roe?

Because the courts have determined, in their wisdom, that an unborn child is not legally a person.

Not if the "mother" wants him/her dead, anyway.

42 posted on 10/19/2007 2:02:41 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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