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HUMDEEDEE's avatar

I don't support a woman's right to choose to have abortions as a form of birth control. One abortion as a result of a mistake or gross irresponsibility is bad enough, but to have more than one is supremely immoral and without excuse.

In the case of verifiable rape and proven incest resulting in a pregnancy abortion should be an option, preferably as early as possible.

Leftist ideologues will not be happy unless abortions are free and available no matter the age of the child.

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WheelHorseman's avatar

Thanks for this column; it is a fault line in many areas of life and politics. When I was in law school, which was a very left leaning place, we studied Roe a little, but even ardent supporters of the result were hard pressed to defend the legal reasoning of finding the right to abortion in the shadow of a penumbra of an unenumerated "right to privacy" in the Constitution. The fact that the court does not have the authority, under separation of powers, to create statutes out of whole cloth is one of the reasons why controversy over the result never ended. As far as stare decisis goes, the argument that "it stood for over 50 years so it should not be overturned" is unpersuasive, unless I guess you also think that Plessy v Ferguson, ca 1896 ("separate but equal") should not have been overturned in Brown v Board of Education in 1954? America was not designed to be controlled by an all-powerful federal government, and I wonder when the 10th amendment will be remembered and invoked?

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