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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: "only 3 doctors...perform third trimester abortions" is unsupported
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- References: <1992Sep04.164504.39938@watson.ibm.com> <1992Sep4.173611.6427@ncsu.edu> <29505@wissel.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Sep8.131417.17245@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 22:01:16 GMT
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- In <1992Sep8.131417.17245@hemlock.cray.com> rja@redwood26.cray.com (Russ Anderson) writes:
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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:
-
- Justice Blackmun is hardly unbiased. Chief Justice Burger swallowed the
- passage you see below hook, line, and sinker, then in his _Thornburgh_
- dissent he said we seem to have already moved beyond abortion on demand.
-
- Blackmun's words below are, to use one of his own pet phrases,
- *pure ipse dixit*. His subsequent actions speak a lot louder.
-
- True, he has never advocated abortion on demand in so many words.
- And maybe his powers of rationalization are such that he really thinks
- we do not have it.
-
- > 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).
- >--
- >Russ Anderson | Disclaimer: Any statements are my own and do not reflect
- >------------------ upon my employer or anyone else. (c) 1992
- >EX-Twins' Jack Morris, 10 innings pitched, 0 runs (World Series MVP!)
-