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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity
- Subject: Re: Basis for Roe Decision
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.154420.21632@rotag.mi.org>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 15:44:20 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.173331.8098@ncsu.edu> <1993Jan9.204247.12745@rotag.mi.org> <aa+34sa@rpi.edu>
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- In article <aa+34sa@rpi.edu> cookc@aix.rpi.edu (rocker) writes:
- >kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >
- >>Doug, Ted was just responding to a call for information on Constitutional
- >>arguments for abortion (from Michael P. Noonan), and a subsequent call for
- >>elaboration (from me). Since the EP argument HAS been made, albeit not in
- >>a court of law (yet!),
- >
- > White came back: "You're relying in this branch of your argument
- > simply on the due-process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?"
- > I responded, "We originally brought the suit alleging...the
- > due-process clause, [the] equal-protection clause, the Ninth
- > Amendment, and a variety of others." "And anything else that might
- > have been appropriate," White cut in. I had to laugh and say yes.
- > The truth was that we had included every argument we could think
- > of.
- >
- > We had not emphasized the equal-protection clause when we filed
- > the suit in 1970, because the Supremem Court had not yet applied
- > it to gender-based discrimination. The first time it did so was
- > days earlier in 1971, in _Reed v. Reed_, an Idaho case.
- >
- > -Sarah Weddington, _A Question of Choice_, Grosset/Putnam,
- > 1992. p. 116-117
-
- Thanks for the correction, Cathi. I had forgotten about this, and
- apparently so had Ted. Tsk, tsk...
-
- - Kevin
-