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To: Ilaine who wrote (84673)11/7/2004 4:43:10 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (3) of 793801
 
It's not based on sound constitutional grounds.

As you well know, it's based on the right to privacy which live in the "penumbra" of the Constitution.

The federal Constitution, not some state constitution, and not some state statute.

Not a chance in hell that R. v. W. gets reversed. Too many other things that go along with it, including the right of consenting adults to do whatever they want to in the privacy of their bedrooms, would be undermined. As it is, the right to die has not been made part of the Constitutional right to privacy partly because Roe has been so controversial, and I can't think of anything more fundamentally up to the individual than the decision to terminate one's life.

If R. v. W gets reversed, which I don't think has an icicle's chance in hell of happening, we had better get used to losing a lot of freedoms that have nothing to do with abortion. The doctrinal basis for things we take for granted but which are not specifically spelled out in the Constitution would get scrutinized.

The attempt to overturn Roe is ultimately the attempt of the extreme rabid right wing to tell you when, how and with whom you may express your sexuality, which is utterly and completely wrong.

You want a bunch of yahoo state legislators to tell you what is and what isn't encompassed by your right to privacy?

Not me, thanks.

We've got plenty of them here in Louisiana; no way will the federeal courts allow that bunch of idiots to legislate morality.
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