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A right does not have to be enumerated to be afforded protection. Even a casual reading of the federalist papers and the debates of the time would demonstrate that. The constitution is (or was) a document that enumerates the powers of government. The government was only supposed to have those powers specifically delegated to them via the constitution but now we have people, claiming to be conservative, that want to turn the constitution on it's head so that people have only those rights specifically enumerated and government has any power except those explicitly denied them. Even the explicit "congress shall make no law" is conveniently ignored by some "conservatives".

Abortion is an important issue but we don't have to gut the concept of individual rights (privacy) and limited government to tackle that issue. Don't be drawn into the Privacy=Abortion premise as it is plainly false.