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To: Lane3 who wrote (10239)	1/29/2006 8:24:17 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541674

If the supreme court said there was a right to an abortion, then there would be one. What the supreme court says is constitutional, is constitutional. That "right" doesn't look very likely right now, but with a more liberal court, it could be there.

To: Lane3 who wrote (10239)	1/29/2006 12:31:53 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541674

I'm not arguing about social policy. I'm arguing about rights. There is no right to an abortion in the constitution or an any law. If you can find one, please tell me where. What there is is a right to non-interference from the federal government in getting one. How do you read Roe v Wade? Do you wish to argue it does not establish a right to an abortion? There is a characteristic of the "far left," in my observation, that converts everything deemed a good thing into a right and that's not valid. There is no right to health care, for example. Maybe it would be good public policy to institute universal health care, but health care is not a right. Not under our constitution. Ah, another straw person argument. I'm not arguing there is a right to adequate health care in the Constitution. I certainly would argue that we should have national health care which provides such, through a single payer system, for everyone. And I would argue that would be very good social policy, even to making it much easier for US corporations to compete with foreign companies. But that's not an argument from a "rights" perspective. Stick with me rather than changing the subject.