(December 1, 2021 at 4:48 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(December 1, 2021 at 3:20 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Preaching to the sane.
Hey asshole - you didn' t answer - where is the right to abortion in the US Constitution?
Boru had it half right - IT ISN'T IN THE CONSTITUTION.
But - the 10th ammendment does say that anything not left up to the Federal government is left up to the states or the people.
I am firmly on the side of giving women the right to self determination of reproducing.
For it to be a given right - a Constitutional Converntion should be called and an ammendment made.
Trying to wiggle it in under another ammendment is going to be a fucked up bandaid that will make this an issue for generations.
Like slavery. It was wrong - so they changed the Constitution.
There doesn’t need to be an amendment made. Placing non-textually specified rights under existing amendments is - in large part - what courts are for.
Consider and issue near and dear to you - the right to bear arms. Does this mean firearms or does it mean swords and pikes? Certain kinds of ‘arms’ are allowed (and others not) even though they are not textually specified in the Constitution. Your FF were clever enough to make amendments as broad as possible.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson