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- From: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: Blackmun calls the Roe v. Wade dividing line "arbitrary"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.230428.11940@ncsu.edu>
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- Reply-To: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1992Dec24.014033.13747@ncsu.edu> <34624@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 23:04:28 GMT
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- In article <34624@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
- >dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
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- >> The article reveals that Justice Blackmun, who is the
- >> principle architect behind Roe, wrote in a private memo
- >> that any dividing line is ``equally arbitrary''.
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- > All rights are socially constructed.
- > [... rest deleted ...]
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- Your comments have nothing to do with the article which I posted.
- Feel free to wander off into some other subject, but don't expect
- me to follow.
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- If viability is an arbitrary dividing line, as Justice Blackmun
- puts it, then why should the states be bound to follow this 'arbitrary'
- line? What precedent is there for the Supreme Court to place
- 'arbitrary' restrictions on the state's power to enact legislation?
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- >SJM
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- Doug Holtsinger
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