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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (166936)	7/23/2005 8:17:37 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

"Let's not limit it to just me and Roe v. Wade. The religious right ignores the scriptures and the theologians that preceded them. The RR says Judaism got it wrong; the Talmud got it wrong; the old Testament got it wrong; St. Thomas Aquinas got it wrong. Where does the "religious" right get their theological opinion from? - jttmab" The same place all theology comes from: it's what you want it to be. I was asking for a religious document or great theologian, such as the great theologian Jimmy Swaggart to support the notion that abortion was murder. Even the Catholic Church didn't take an anti-abortion stance until 1869. The Catholic Church went 1800 years before they discovered that abortion was wrong. The Hittites had a law against abortion, but I don't recall the religious right justifying their position based on Hittite law. "P.S. And the Founding Fathers got it wrong as abortion was allowed under common law. - jttmab" Which I previously also stated. Which means Roe v. Wade can be considered to be not the result of a 9-person legislature, but rather the routine striking down of state law it considers unconstitutional by the USSC. Something the USSC has been doing and has been accepted for over 200 years. I'm making a different point. I'm adding to the list of the many that got it "wrong"...not just me and Roe v. Wade, it includes the Founding Fathers. "P.P.S. In our democracy, it's supposed to be the will of the people that determines it's laws; 2/3 of the people believe that Roe v. Wade should not be overturned and that abortion should be legal." - jttmab Not entirely. There are rights guaranteed citizens which are not subject to majority rule. (At least a simple majority; presumably even freedom of speech and the press could be abolished by Constitutional amendment.) Tough time getting a Constitutional Amendment to abolish free speech and press without the will of the people. jttmab