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To: combjelly who wrote (224974)	3/19/2005 4:33:08 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572194

Do you know what they "made up" in the constitution in the Rode vs. Wade case to explain their decision?" The woman, who went by the name of "Jane Roe", won the case. As one might suspect, the decision wasn't handed down until long after she gave birth. The basic issue that was addressed by this ruling was that the options of a pregnant woman who didn't want to continue the pregnancy depended on how wealthy she or her family was. If you were rich, you could afford to fly to Europe or travel to those states where abortion was legal. If you weren't so rich, and lived in the Southwest, Mexico was always an option. Not that it was legal in Mexico, but along the border abortion clinics were common. It wasn't as safe as the others, but it was a whole lot cheaper. If you were poor, or didn't live in the Southwest, the options pretty much involved a coat hanger. In the court opinion, several issues were raised. It perhaps is not generally appreciated that the restrictive criminal abortion laws in effect in a majority of States today are of relatively recent vintage. Those laws, generally proscribing abortion or its attempt at any time during pregnancy except when necessary to preserve the pregnant woman's life, are not of ancient or even of common-law origin. Instead, they derive from statutory changes effected, for the most part, in the latter half of the 19th century. Are you discussing the decision by the state supreme court in TX? The USSC's ruling was based on the right to privacy: Message 21150388