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To: Knitebane

The law used to say it was murder. This was true in many states. I believe 5 unelected judges decreed that it wasn’t...turning the law on it’s head.


176 posted on 07/02/2009 7:40:05 PM PDT by I got the rope
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To: I got the rope
The law used to say it was murder. This was true in many states. I believe 5 unelected judges decreed that it wasn’t...turning the law on it’s head.

There were state laws that said that abortion was a tantamount to murder. The Supremes said that those laws violated the right to privacy of women and was therefore unconstitutional.

Stupid since the "right to privacy" doesn't seem to be in any copy of the Constitution that I've seen. But they did it anyway.

Now interestingly, the Supremes said in Roe v. Wade that the right to privacy trumped the right of a child to live. A well-crafted case that preserved privacy and asked the court to protect the unborn too would likely be hard for the current crop of the Supremes to ignore.

But even so, overturning Roe v. Wade wouldn't automagically make abortion illegal in the several states. New laws would have to be crafted that specified the exact parameters for each state for a person to be prosecuted for abortion.

And based on the history of abortion laws and courts, the target of such laws would be doctors, not mothers.

177 posted on 07/03/2009 10:39:37 PM PDT by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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