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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (10287)1/29/2006 7:41:01 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 541673
 
If it were a right to abortion when you want one, and in the law, I'd have no problem with it being phrased that way in a statute would you? It wouldn't compel anyone to have one- it would merely mean that IF you wanted one, you would have the right to one.

That, I think, is precisely the point of Roe. Women have the right in the first trimester, the right is a more ambiguous one in the second, and the state has major interests in the third.

I think "right" is precisely the "right" term here and not "freedom." It is something that a woman can expect should she ask for it.

On the other hand, the state has no obligation to provide hospitals, doctors, etc. I like the phrase "affirmative right."

For some reason, this conversation reminds me of faculty discussions in the late 70s or early 80s. Our health plan failed to provide coverage for pregnancy because it "was not an illness." Language is what it is. Took a bit of pressure but we forced a change of providers.
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