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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (10252)1/29/2006 1:10:43 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 541679
 
Do you wish to argue it does not establish a right to an abortion?

That's exactly what I've been arguing. Roe overturned laws making abortion illegal. It didn't assert the right to one. If the Court overturns blue laws, it doesn't mean that we have a right to shop on Sunday. It merely removes the legal barrier. If stores choose not to open, to name just one factor, we still can't shop.

Ah, another straw person argument. I'm not arguing there is a right to adequate health care in the Constitution....
Stick with me rather than changing the subject.

Not a straw man. I did not imply that you said or thought there was. It was just context, not a change of direction. I was simply trying to further explain and reinforce my earlier stated perception that the right to an abortion was a far-left notion, which is what started this colloquy, if you recall. The right to health care was just another example of a made-up right asserted by some. Perhaps my intent would have been clearer had I put that paragraph in parenthesis.

(My blue-law illustration isn't a straw man, either. It's only there to illustrate the difference between making something legal and awarding a right to that thing. If we made drugs legal, people wouldn't have a right to them, either.)
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