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- From: gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis)
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- Subject: Re: Pro choice question
- Keywords: choice question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.222424.22158@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 22:24:24 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.131714.10234@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <1992Nov20.205249.23225@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov21.200136.13932@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov21.200136.13932@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> clavazzi@nyx.cs.du.edu (The_Doge) writes:
- }In article <1992Nov20.205249.23225@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
- }>In article <1992Nov20.131714.10234@doug.cae.wisc.edu> mccullou@cae.wisc.edu
- }>(Mark McCullough) writes:
- }>
- }>}People use the constitution for too much. It is a foundation, not
- }>}the end all. If people want abortion legal or outlawed, pass a law.
- }>}Don't try to read it into the constitution. Of course I would never
- }>}last as a judge, if the constitution doesn't make a reference to it,
- }>}it isn't in the constitution. A horrible attitude I know, but it is
- }>}real life.
- }>
- }>Perhaps it escaped you Mark, but all things are legal until someone
- }>passes a law making them illegal. I suspect you should check out
- }>"real" sometime, as in "real life."
- } Let's be charitable (c'mon, it can't hurt just this once!) and note
- }that what we really have here is a philosophical difference between the
- }Statist and Individualist mentalities.
-
- I'm not really sure why I am included in this follow-up,
- as I am neither a Statist, Individualist, Papist, Fascist,
- or whatever. It is trivially simple. If there are no
- laws, nothing is illegal. It takes passage of a law to
- make something illegal. It doesn't matter whether you
- include Republicans, Democrats, Jains, Bhuddists, Baptists,
- or Jews. (Sorry if anyone felt left out). Oh, I have to
- confess that some call me a speleologist, so I am guilty
- of belonging to one of the "ist"s. The society I
- belong to is one of the larger underground societies, too...
-
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