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- From: eeb1@ellis.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)
- Subject: Re: repost
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.000558.28517@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug18.122206.650@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Aug18.154253.7179@wuecl.wustl.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:05:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.154253.7179@wuecl.wustl.edu>
- dgp@atlas.wustl.edu (Don Porter) writes:
- >><1992Aug8.165958.21263@midway.uchicago.edu> (e elizabeth bartley) writes:
-
- >>> Pro-Choice Anti-Roe - E. Elizabeth Bartley
-
- ><1992Aug18.122206.650@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >> I haven't seen an explicitly Anti-Roe statement above. "Life or health"
- >> is a Roe formula.
-
- >RvW can be viewed in two ways, as policy and as process. As policy,
- >it established a trimester framework of rights and interests in which
- >to create abortion policy. As you have noted, Elizabeth agrees with
- >the policy framework of RvW ( Roughly anyway. I'll let Elizabeth deal
- >with the details of her stance herself. )
-
- >As process, RvW asserted that the Supreme Court has the authority
- >to author such a framework and impose it on all the states of the
- >Union. It is this notion which Elizabeth rejects. The Court's purpose
- >is not to enact its favored policy for the states.
-
- >I'm sure Elizabeth would be happy if the Illinois legislature passed the
- >provisions of RvW into state law. In fact, I think she has even voiced
- >support for the FOCA, which attempts to do something similar on a
- >federal level.
-
- Bingo. I don't think there's any *Constitutional* right to an
- abortion, and given that I don't think the Supreme Court had the
- authority to write Roe (though as we've seen, they certainly had the
- power to do so).
-
- I had "Pro-Choice, Anti-Roe, Pro-Freedom of Choice Act" in my .sig for
- a while. I took it out because I realized that I hadn't looked
- closely enough at the FOCA to really be certain I liked it. I like
- what I think it does, but I haven't made certain it doesn't have
- provisions I can't support.
-
- --
- Pro-Choice Anti-Roe - E. Elizabeth Bartley
- Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.
-