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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Zefram: [qb] That's why the criminizalization (or legalization) of abortion should be decided through elected representatives rather than through judges.[/qb][/QUOTE]Well, there is the point that things don't generally come before the Court until the people involved feel they have been in some way abused or done a disservice by the law and, by extension, the elected representatives. [QUOTE][qb]The U.S. Constitution neither grants nor denies the right to an abortion, making the decision a Legislative one.[/qb][/QUOTE]Of course it doesn't; One of the precepts of our system is that people inherently have unlimited rights and freedoms until a law specifically limits or takes them away. The Bill of Rights was added simply as additional insurance for the security of those rights and freedoms the Framers felt to be most important and necessary, a comfort to those who feared possible future manipulations of the System. (Sadly, in recent years, it looks to me like their concerns were quite warranted.) [QUOTE][qb]I've also noticed a strong anti-religious sentiment running through this argument...[/qb][/QUOTE]Perhaps this is because the single greatest threat to individual freedom in America today is the religiously fundamentalist segement of the population that currently controls all three branches of the federal government. (There, Omega, that's statement of personal belief for you. ;) ) -[b]MMoM[/b] :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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