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Originally Posted by alansmithee
Wrong. It doesn't take the gov't to tell you when life begins? And there is much scientific opinion stating that life starts soon after conception (2 weeks, IIRC).
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Who would it take then? shall we have the church dictate when life begins? Maybe we should ask the international community? Or we could even ask the UN itself? (note the sarcasm)If you're going to have any part of the government tell you that you do not have certain privacy rights then they damn well better spell it out exactly, wouldn't you think? otherwise, all you're doing is letting the government be your master.
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Originally Posted by alansmithee
Also, I don't think at the current time Roe v Wade is in danger, but I think after Bush gets two more on it could fall (Roberts and the O'Connor replacement). It's always had shaky at best legal justification. It's more a matter of getting enough support on the bench to actually see the test case. I think if a case were to reach, it could easily be overturned.
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If the people have a need to empower the governmental body to determine whether rights exist according to exact wording of the constitution, again you'd better have them rewrite it and spell out exactly what it is a person can and cannot do.
I'll ask the question again, when did we start looking at the constitution as a document that restricts the people instead of the government?
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