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Phillies Speaks Out on Roe v Wade
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Jan 24, 2008 09:23am |
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| Category | Opinion |
| News Date | Thursday, January 24, 2008 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Today is the 35th Anniversary of the Supreme Court’s finding in Roe v Wade. By a seven-to-two majority, the Supreme Court found that Texas laws regarding abortion were unconstitutional. The Court noted a variety of valid grounds for their decision: “This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment’s concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment’s reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.”
Americans properly celebrate this removal of government intervention from their private lives. “While the decision is actually weaker than many hope or fear,” Phillies wrote, “it protects the consciences of all Americans. A government that claims the right to control abortions has claimed the right to mandate abortions, for example in cases where an infant would be profoundly malformed and end up as a ward of the state. Only the Libertarian position government should have no role in this matter guarantees that every American can act as their conscience dictates.” |
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