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- From: rja@redwood26.cray.com (Russ Anderson)
- Subject: Re: "only 3 doctors...perform third trimester abortions" is unsupported
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.131417.17245@hemlock.cray.com>
- Originator: rja@redwood26
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- Sender: rja@redwood26 (Russ Anderson)
- Organization: The 1991 World Champion Minnesota Twins!
- References: <1992Sep04.164504.39938@watson.ibm.com> <1992Sep4.173611.6427@ncsu.edu> <29505@wissel.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 13:14:17 CDT
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- In article <29505@wissel.GBA.NYU.EDU>, smezias@wissel.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep4.173611.6427@ncsu.edu>
- > dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >
- > >I don't understand how you can casually dismiss my unbiased sources
- > >which show that Roe v. Wade is unrestricted abortion on demand throughout
- > >the term of pregnancy and then expect me to accept your pro-abortion
- > >sources. (And please leave the preceeding sentence intact, if your
- > >honesty allows you to do so).
- >
- > Easy: You haven't provided unbiased sources to support your claim.
-
- Here's my unbiased source:
-
- ROE v. WADE
- 410 U.S. 113; 93 S. Ct. 705; 35 L. Ed. 2d 147 (1973)
-
- Mr. Justice Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court, saying in
- part:
- [...]
- On the basis of elements such as these, appellants and some
- amici argue that the woman's right is absolute and that she is en-
- titled to terminate her pregnancy at whatever time, in whatever
- way, and for whatever reason she alone chooses. With this we do
- not agree. Appellants' arguments that Texas either has no valid
- interest at all in regulating the abortion decision, or no inter-
- est strong enough to support any limitation upon the woman's sole
- determination, is unpersuasive. The Court's decisions recognizing
- a right of privacy also acknowledge that some state regulation in
- areas protected by that right is appropriate. As noted above, a
- State may properly assert important interests in safeguarding
- health, in maintaining medical standards, and in protecting poten-
- tial life. At some point in pregnancy, these respective interests
- become sufficiently compelling to sustain regulation of the fac-
- tors that govern the abortion decision. The privacy right in-
- volved, therefore, cannot be said to be absolute. In fact, it is
- not clear to us that the claim asserted by some amici that one has
- unlimited right to do with one's body as one pleases bears a close
- relationship to the right of privacy previously articulated in the
- Court's decisions. The Court has refused to recognize an unlimited
- right of this kind in the past. Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905)
- (vaccination); Buck v. Bell (1927) (sterilization).
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