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To: jttmab who wrote (166635)	7/21/2005 2:33:39 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Message 21526196 What is the compelling interest of the State? What is the compelling interest of the state in the murder of one private citizen by another? States are formed to prevent and punish such crimes. Again, the question is what is the compelling interest of the State? In the former, the decision is that there is a compelling State interest. What? Define it. Then tell me why the comfort of the patient, particularly a terminal patient, doesn't override it. For the later, the Oregon law still holds. The adjudication has not been completed. It can still be struck down. washingtonpost.com Even in the dissenting opinion written by Rehnquist, he acknowledges that the health of the mother overrides any interest the State may have. Who is it that you want to decide the health of the mother issue? Doctor/patient or you want each case debated in Congress? Straw man. Most abortions do not involve danger to the life of the mother and you know it. Back when abortions were illegal (pre-1973), it was commonly accepted that if childbirth could kill the mother, it was legal to abort. However, I will accept that in Roe v. Wade, the Court was not acting as a 9-man legislature.