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To: Elroy who wrote (211525)	1/2/2007 10:18:59 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If the states were allowed to decide you would have a patchwork, and some states would make it illegal (some already have for all intents and purposes, since they've intimidated clinics out of existence and hospitals often won't provide the service). The Supreme Court found the right to privacy gradually- and it's kind of discussed here- it was Skinner that I was thinking of (one of the sterilization cases): bsos.umd.edu the law is imperfect in this area, but I think allowing women to be privileged to have an abortion just because they live in California or New York would be a real injustice to women in other states. Obviously people on the other side would say it's better to "force" the women not to be "murderers", but when something is parasitizing your body for 9 months, I think you have a right to decide whether or not you want it there. But that's just my opinion. I'm not bound by religious doctrine, so I arrive at the decision I think most fair, and which benefits society. I was very interested in the Freakonomics argument that abortion has helped decrease criminality in our society- have you read Freakonomics? That seemed a very interesting argument to me. It's not the reason I am pro-choice- as a woman, and having had 3 pregnancies I wanted (and none I didn't) I could never vote to force that on a woman who didn't want it. Pregnancy is simply to big a thing to force on someone, imo, and a patchwork of state laws would be bound to do just that, at least in some states.