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  • Privacy argument isn't relevant in abortion debate

    02/13/2006 1:53:48 PM PST · by Coleus · 20 replies · 729+ views
    Yuma Sun ^ | 02.11.06 | TIBOR R. MACHAN
    One reason that Roe v. Wade is still with us is that legal scholars and jurists argue about the wrong issue. The question isn’t whether the Constitution contains any reference to a right to privacy. Let’s assume it does. Let’s assume that the Ninth Amendment, as argued in Griswold v. Connecticut and some other cases, implicitly refers to the right to privacy every human being has. Why would this be relevant? Some might argue that if one has the right to privacy, a woman who has an abortion is doing something private, something no one else has the authority to...