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To: goldstategop

Goldstategop,
Are you sure there's no right to privacy in the constitution? Here's what I'm thinking...the reason for the Bill of Rights was to lay out the minimum rights; and even then, there was strong disagreement about including the BillOR lest our rights be limited to those enumerated. My understanding- and correct me if I'm wrong- is that ALL rights were reserved to the people that were not expressly forbidden, and that the Bill O.R. was simply a bare bones enumeration of SOME of those rights.
Mind you, I abhor Roe V Wade. But I have rethought lately the whole right to privacy issue. Of course, you do not have a right to privacy to commit murder or any other crime, which thus precludes killing unborn babies.
What thinkest thou?


117 posted on 07/29/2004 7:49:24 AM PDT by MotherofTen
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To: MotherofTen
Amendment IX - The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Here's what you said: Here's what I'm thinking...the reason for the Bill of Rights was to lay out the minimum rights; and even then, there was strong disagreement about including the BillOR lest our rights be limited to those enumerated. My understanding- and correct me if I'm wrong- is that ALL rights were reserved to the people that were not expressly forbidden, and that the Bill O.R. was simply a bare bones enumeration of SOME of those rights.

I think you're on to something there.

124 posted on 07/29/2004 8:00:15 AM PDT by .38sw
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