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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: E who wrote (211629)1/3/2007 2:43:43 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
The concept of "minority rights" would seem to apply. The majority doesn't, in America, automatically get to force the minority to heel.

Yes the majority does in many cases get to force the minority to heel, as you say, all the time. Bans on public nudity, public smoking and restrictions on the sale of alcohol are just a few examples of where the majority has made their decision, and the minority nudists, smokers and boozers have to comply. Abortion is a much more extreme example of "invasion of privacy", but the question was not whether you think it should or should not be legal, it was whether the right to an abortion is laid out somewhere in the constitution.

I agree abortion should be legal, but I think its legality should be guaranteed by the elected legislature, not the Supreme Court. And in a state where 51% of the population think that it should be illegal, perhaps it should.
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