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- From: eeb1@ellis.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)
- Subject: Re: Go read the Constitution
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.235654.20365@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:56:54 GMT
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- In article <og2311c@fido.asd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
- >eeb1@ellis.uchicago.edu writes:
- >|dgp@atlas.wustl.edu (Don Porter) writes:
- >|><lx3mnfj.boserj@netcom.com> (Jeffrey Boser) writes:
-
- >|>|Life is not guarnteed by any legal document
- >|>|we have. Go read the constitution some time and look at the parts
- >|>|under 'privacy' and 'defence'.
-
- >|There's no generic right to privacy in the Constitution. The
- >|Supreme Court looked at all the places where it provided *specific*
- >|rights of privacy (illegal search and seizure, no troops quartered
- >|in private houses in peacetime, etc.) and somehow decided that all
- >|of them together made up a generic right to privacy. In other
- >|words, the Supreme Court made it all up.
-
- >Thank the founding fathers for the Ninth Amendment:
-
- > 9th Amendment
- > The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not
- > be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
-
- >This one is supposed to save us from the attitude displayed
- >above, which I find frightening to see in someone who's on
- >my side. The men who wrote our Constitution didn't want to
- >enumerate rights, for fear of just that attitude. Sometimes I
- >wish they'd refrained... but I can just picture the horrors of
- >tyranny we'd now be enjoying without the Bill of Rights. Look
- >at the horrors we now enjoy *with* it.
-
- Uh, CJ, last I'd heard the Founders wrote the Ninth Amendment because
- they wanted to protect rights the people already legally had from
- other sources (the two biggest being English Common Law and State
- Constitutions), *not* because they wanted to protect whatever the
- Supreme Court decides are "rights".
-
- >Maybe it's time to start working for a "right to privacy"
- >amendment.
-
- Let's go for it. Get abortion protected nationally in a way that
- doesn't say that nine people can decide what our legal rights are
- based on what they think our moral rights are. Too many people
- confuse the two already.
-
- --
- Abortions should be legal, safe, early, and rare.
-
- Pro-Choice Anti-Roe - E. Elizabeth Bartley
-