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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Blackmun calls the Roe v. Wade dividing line "arbitrary"
- Message-ID: <34644@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 14:00:38 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.014033.13747@ncsu.edu> <34624@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Dec26.230428.11940@ncsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec26.230428.11940@ncsu.edu>
- dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- You posted that the fact that the dividing line was arbitrary, drove
- your opposition to RvW. All legal mandates are arbitrary. You oppose
- RvW not because it is arbitrary but because you disagree with it.
-
- >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?
-
- The Supreme Court can do whatever it wants. All levels of government
- as well as citizens must comply under force of law.
-