From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sun Feb 09 2003 - 07:31:49 MST
In a message dated 2/8/2003 10:55:41 PM Central Standard Time,
rblackford@hotmail.com writes: Yes, this is the correct analysis. Whether
such individual rights really can be read into the US constitution is another
thing. Assuming this is legitimate, however, a body such as a Supreme Court
is the appropriate institution to protect them.
It seems to reasonable to speculate that anytime we contend that we
have reserved a power to ourselves without defining what the power is then
someday when we go to exercise our power there will be differences of opinion
as to whether the power ever existed.
When we were presented the proof, in class, that we had always
exercised the right to abortion under the old English Common Law and under
American legal practice there seemed to be a lot of indications that were pro
abortion but that the facts were not perfectly clear. In the end it was a
judgement call.
As I remember it, way back in 1974 or 75 I argued pro abortion but in
weighing the facts and making a judgement it was a squeaker IMHO.
Ron h.
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