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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Kavanaugh isn’t going to overturn Roe v. Wade.
And if he did, it would devolve to the states, which could then make their own laws regarding abortion.

Roe was hideous law - with judges finding ‘penumbras’ and creating rights never mentioned in the US Constitution, nor covered by the 9th or 10th Amendments, while ignoring the one relevant piece of law: the 5th Amendment: “...nor be deprived of life...”


81 posted on 07/11/2018 5:37:25 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Little Ray

That was exactly my point, and the point of people who understand how these things should be decided, that Roe v Wade was a deeply flawed decision.

It has remained all these years as a bedrock of “the right to an abortion” not because it was a sound decision, but because of the emotional and political firebombing that it can be used for by the Left.


88 posted on 07/11/2018 5:46:05 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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