[tpaine]

The difficulty in this approach is determining when an action does NOT hurt others, and is thus a protected liberty, and when it DOES hurt others and is thus a proscribed "license".
7 -joe-


The law makers have to determine the 'compling reason' for a specific law, just as they should. It may be difficult, but that's their job.

If they err in their logic, the law is repugnant to the constitution, and void, -- just as Justice Marshall observed back in Marbury v Madison, 1803.
10 -tpaine-




500,000 needless deaths is a pretty compelling reason. Now all Dr. Kevorkian has to do to legally help people commit suicide is to prescribe homosexual sodomy, until the activist judges find an inalienable right to an early death, slavery to vice, and the pursuit of unneeded suffering.


Your religious POV that all abortion is 'needless death' is not a constitutionally valid legal point, cj.
The liberty of the pregnant woman is very valid, as is pointed out in the article:


"-- Justice Kennedy refused to rest abortion rights on a "right to privacy," though this crucial move has been generally ignored. Instead he rested it on liberty, and explicitly on the Ninth Amendment:

Neither the Bill of Rights nor the specific practices of States at the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment marks the outer limits of the substantive sphere of liberty which the Fourteenth Amendment protects.
See U.S. Const., Amend. 9 --"


Please cj, try to argue the threads legal points for a change, and avoid your emotional outbursts.

[Cultural Jihad]

Abortions have been committed against over 40 million Americans since Roe-v-Wade. The 500,000 recent needless deaths were from the form of murder-suicide called 'homosexual sodomy.'

If only the Libertarians could resuurrect Thomas Jefferson and have him rewrite the DOI Preamble so as to get rid of those pesky inalienable rights...

[Cultural Jihad]

Please cj, try to argue the threads legal points for a change, and avoid your emotional outbursts.

Excuse me for believing that the inalienable right to life trumps the ideologue's right to proselytize and preach an early, unnecessary death.