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- From: sa114984@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Steven Arnold)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Cough Man's hypocrisy
- Message-ID: <Sep12.064928.36444@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 06:49:28 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.165321.25266@ncsu.edu> <24090@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Aug27.012112.2026@ncsu.edu> <1992Sep3.200533.29752@Cadence.COM>
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- In article <1992Sep3.200533.29752@Cadence.COM>, phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel) writes:
- |> In article <1992Aug27.012112.2026@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- |> >Roe v. Wade created a constitutional right to "terminate a pregnancy"
- |> >and it created a constitutional right to kill certain members of the
- |> >human species.
- |>
- |> Dougie, you simply do NOT understand how the Supreme Court operates.
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- Peetie, it is YOU who does not understand how the Supreme Court operates.
- You do not even seem to understand how it SHOULD operate.
-
- |> The
- |> Supremes CANNOT create rights, they can only RECOGNIZE rights.
-
- Wrong! The Supreme Court CAN and DOES create rights. It should not.
- Constitionally, it should recognize and enforce only CONSTITUTIONAL rights.
- Nevertheless, it has created rights many times, usually right out of thin air.
-
- |> In Roe v. Wade,
- |> the Supreme Court RECOGNIZED that a woman's right to privacy unconditionally
- |> overrides the government's power to regulate abortions in the first trimester,
- |> mostly overrides the government's power to regulate abortions in the second
- |> trimester, and sometimes overrides the government's power to regulate
- |> abortions in the third trimester.
-
- In Roe v. Wade, Harry Blackmun decided that the reforms you mention ought
- to be law in the U.S. and he made them so. There is nothing in the constitution
- to protect a right to an abortion. If you want such an amendment, you're welcome
- to try to pass one, but right now it just isn't there.
-
- Steve
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