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To: uncbob
Here is the constitutional basis for Roe v Wade:

AMENDMENT IX

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

The right to privacy, to control ones own body is "retained by the people."

One of fallacies of Justice Blackburn's logic, in his penned majority opinion, is that he arbitrarily decided that life begins after the first tri-mester and thus the fetus was not human life until after that time period.

I emphasize "arbitrary."

This declaration is preposterous. What else can the combination of a woman's egg and a man's sperm be? A horse? A rat? A chesseburger? Fecal matter?

No, the combination can only be a "human" embryo, which can only be a human being.

The other fallacy was Blackburn's declaration that this non-human embryo was part of woman's body, in which she has exclusive control over.

Again, it does not take much logical ability to deduce that an embryo, a human, cannot be produced, exclusively by a woman, and that the developing embryo is only a "temporary" inhabitant of woman's body, not a permanent part of her body, such as a kidney, lung, arm, eye, etc., in which she would have exclusive control.

10 posted on 04/12/2002 5:34:00 PM PDT by tahiti
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To: tahiti
Agree wholeheartedly w/ your post...don't mean to nitpick, but wasn't it Blackmun? (from Minn., now presumed burning).

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Regards.

13 posted on 04/12/2002 8:14:28 PM PDT by Old Fud
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