Anyway, do you know the constitutional basis for the decision?
Why are you asking Tim or Harris? All they know is that they are against it.
The USSC ruling was based on the right of privacy found in both the 9th and 14th amendments of the Constitution....below is Blackmun's opinion on the case. Its important to note that Blackmun was a conservative:
"Harry A. Blackmun authored the Supreme Court's majority opinion in the Roe vs. Wade decision, basing the ruling on the constitutional right to privacy. "This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy," he wrote. In another case involving abortion rights, Blackmun strongly dissented in 1989 in Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services, which placed limitations on the right to an abortion. In taking his stance, the justice noted, a "chill wind blows." Blackmun joined the court in 1970. He was nominated by President Richard Nixon, after his first two nominees were rejected by the Senate. Blackmun retired in 1994 and was replaced by Justice Stephen G. Breyer "
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