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To: Ilaine who wrote (63351)	11/17/1999 6:06:00 PM
From: Null Dog Ago	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Interesting facts about "Jane Roe": 1)Went out drinking irresponsibly and wound up in bed with a lot of men, thus resulting in unwanted pregnancies. 2)Had change of heart and is now pro-life.

To: Ilaine who wrote (63351)	11/17/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

No, I haven't read the law. I gathered my opinion from discussions with my cousin who was (he is deceased, unfortunately) a State's Attorney and had a private practice for awhile. He was active in Democratic Party politics and was pro-choice. He and his friends, most of whom were lawyers, agreed that Roe was badly written. My understanding is the decision flowed from a line of cases following the Griswold decision, where the court implied a right of privacy from "penumbras" it created out of whole cloth. The Supremes implied the right from other rights found in the Constitution. Until Roe abortion was regulated by the states and should have been left that way. Didn't a plaintiff in Roe come forward and admit the facts as set forth in the case were fraudulent? The whole thing was cooked up by the abortion lobby. Anyway, I didn't intend to rehash the abortion argument. No minds are going to be changed around here, I know that. I thought the picture was touching and thought provoking.