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To: H.Akston
The state can compel men to take up arms, against their will. So much for 'right to choose'. Constitution doesnt stop that.

You are entitled to your opinion, but dont read into the constitution what isnt there. Men and women have their liberty restricted when medical procedures and other matters afffecting our bodies are regulated by the state. The supreme court has not abolished medical regulations. nor have they abolished the FDA. The state can forbid us from taking dangerous drugs, from taking even non-FDA approved lifesaving drugs ... and likewise can forbid for various reasons medical procedures such as those that kill the unborn. Indeed, whether we think the unborn have a 'right to life' or not, saving such lives is indeed a 'compelling state interest'. If the result is the compulsion to bear a child as nature takes its course, it is no more a threat to constitutional rights than forcing homeowners to carry flood insurance or forcing motorcyclists to wear helmets.

There is no Constituion "Right to abortion" - that was an invention of the Supreme Court in a notorious case of judicial overreaching.

191 posted on 03/16/2002 10:02:33 AM PST by WOSG
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To: WOSG
Of course, you're correct; morally speaking.

However; have you looked at the calendar?
Noticed the year?
No disrespect intended, WOSG; but, you're an anachronism.
A hell of a good, honest anachronism it sounds like...& one I'd be ecstatic to call my neighbor; but, an anaochronism nonetheless.

Things are done very differently in this, our Liberally dominated America, than the way you & I were (probably) brought up to believe was right & just.
It stinks; yes.
No doubt -- make no mistake.
Still, that's the way it is.

Our side cannot AFFORD to let the other side know *how* they're going to need to fight us, anymore.
Which is exactly what we do, and have been doing when we tell 'em which direction we're planning on moving.
Let the Leftist work for their gains & issues & let us & our side stop giving it all away.
"Discretion is the better part of valor."

If you knew me a'tall; then you'd also realize just how damned hard it is for me to have to say that, too.

199 posted on 03/16/2002 11:52:22 AM PST by Landru
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To: WOSG
The state can compel men to take up arms, against their will. So much for 'right to choose'. Constitution doesnt stop that"

The Constitution authorizes Congress to raise Armies and Navies.

The Constitution is silent on the specific issue of abortion, but the 9th Amendment says that that silence doesn't deny or disparage an unmentioned right. The Constitution is not silent on the right of a person to be secure in her person. It is also not silent on the right of one person (a mother) to not have to serve another (a fetus). I think there's some guidance there.

202 posted on 03/16/2002 12:33:46 PM PST by H.Akston
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