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illbill Donating Member (718 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-05 11:02 AM
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Roe, roe, roe your boat
<snip> I am eagerly awaiting the day when the Supreme Court, in its infinite wisdom, opines that the Burger Court was on drugs (I mean, consider the decade) when it held that the penumbra of privacy that the Court had recognized in Griswold v. Connecticut (birth control info for married folks, for those of us who may not remember the days when telling married couples how to prevent conception was a criminal offence—Chee-rist, would I have been out of a job then!) applied via the Fourteenth Amendment (equal protection, look it up, you should know this) to a women's right to terminate her pregnancy for any reason she damn well pleased (up to then, most states had allowed abortion only to save the life of the mother). <snip>


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