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- From: eeb1@quads.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)
- Subject: Re: Constitutional abortion rights
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.082002.4994@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 08:20:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.230850.26925@wdl.loral.com>
- bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com writes:
-
- >Well, Doug, seeing as how the only thing you *will* own up to is that
- >you don't think abortion should be a Constitutional right, why don't
- >you give us your reasoning for why you think the abortion right isn't
- >covered in the Ninth Amendment?
-
- I'm not Doug, but....
-
- I don't think the Ninth Amendment guarantees a right to abortion
- because I think that the Ninth Amendment safeguards right legally
- granted to the people by sources other than the U.S. Constitution,
- primarily state constitutions and English Common Law. It *would*
- prioritize a right in a state constitution over a federal law against
- abortion, however.
-
- If I wanted to find a right to abortion in the Constitution, I'd look
- at the Fourteenth Amendment ... no involuntary servitude....
-
- But Clinton getting elected has changed my opinion of Roe from
- "Overturn it *now*; having precedents that far removed from the
- Constitution still in force is DANGEROUS!" to "Let's pass the Freedom
- of Choice Act, *first*, and *then* overturn Roe v. Wade...."
-
- --
- Pro-Choice Anti-Roe - E. Elizabeth Bartley
- Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.
-
- Cthulhu for President -- when you're tired of voting for the lesser of 2 evils.
-