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To: Victoria Delsoul
What you are saying very simply is that the mother has the right to kill her dependent child but according to you we shouldn't call it murder.

No, you're twisting my words to make me look heartless. Demagoging the issue, like a liberal does. I'm saying the mother has a right to be independent from other lives, and 'secure in her own person'. That's almost a direct quote from the 4th Amendment.

As you said before - even Scalia admitted that he thinks a Constitutional amendment is necessary to clear this issue up. That right there is an admission that a State that allows abortion is not necessarily doing anything unconstitutional.

I would hate to see a Constitutional Amendment get passed on this issue, because there are too many variables, and it could never cover every conceivable case. The States can work this out, and they'll end up doing something more restrictive than Roe V. Wade is on abortion if that could ever be overturned, as well it should. I don't think it's possible to write a constitutional amendment that would work, because of the way our government is structured.

I'm just never going to see how a rapist could force a 17 year old girl to carry his baby, in a society that calls itself free. Nicolai Chowchesku outlawed contraception in his country (Romania), and he was a brutal dictator. Outlawing abortion in all cases, is going to result in similar situations that arose in that country, rising in this country.

211 posted on 03/16/2002 1:06:28 PM PST by H.Akston
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To: H.Akston
Courts have acknowledged rights of preborn children. Preborn children can receive Social Security benefits and have guardians appointed to them. Some states give welfare payments for preborn children. Preborn children have consistently been awarded the right of inheritance also.
212 posted on 03/16/2002 1:31:43 PM PST by Sir Gawain
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