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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (3722)1/28/2001 2:30:28 PM
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Post Script thought:

A woman who was involved with the Roe v Wade decision (she was very active in Planned Parenthood) told me that the reason the cut-off was made so late was to "grandfather" women who had been waiting for abortions. I've never heard about this from any other source, but have felt that such a predictably ultimately self-defeating provision had to have some unusual explanation.

My other (no doubt paranoid) thought was that the religious right was very smart, and went with provisions that would enable their side to be able, ever after, to change the subject from embryos and early fetuses to babies, since what they're concerned about is cells-with-souls, which aren't marketable to most voters as grounds for depriving women of a right to safe and legal abortion. The right surely does favor those pictures of late term fetuses, however minuscule a percentage of abortions they represent! There's a reason for that.

Seriously, though, this seems to me a good example of (regarding those that elected to go with the late cut-off the standard for Roe), "with friends like those you don't need enemies."

You also asked about how to make workable new regulations with an earlier cut-off for legal abortions.

That's a new and very interesting subject we can talk about another time. I'd like to hear others' thoughts about this. I assume the discussion would involve definitions of personhood, or of "a human being."

Edit: I assume also that there's a lot of scholarship out there. Wouldn't it be fascinating to read a transcript of the discussion that preceded Roe v Wade?
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