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- From: wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr)
- Subject: "Right to procreate" (was Supreme Court and Homosexuality)
- In-Reply-To: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.003921.14361@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Northeastern Law, Class of '93
- References: <24067@galaxy.ucr.edu> <1992Nov22.223446.4225@midway.uchicago.edu> <19394@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:39:21 GMT
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- In article <19394@smoke.brl.mil>,
- matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt) said:
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- > > Can Georgia constitutionally ban heterosexual sex? [Ted Frank]
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- > We have it from Justice William Douglas's opinion for the U. S.
- > Supreme Court in _Skinner v. Oklahoma_, 316 U.S. 535 (1942), that
- > legislation taking away the right to procreate affects "one of the
- > basic civil rights of man," because marriage and procreation are
- > fundamental to the very existence and survival of the race.
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- Of course, back in 1942 medical technology wasn't nearly as far
- advanced as it is today in the fields of human procreation that do not
- directly involve or require the act of heterosexual copulation...
- suppose Georgia passed a set of laws which banned heterosexual sex but
- also guaranteed the right of unlimited access to state-funded
- artificial insemination clinics? :-)
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- -- William December Starr <wdstarr@athena.mit.edu>
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