Search through that Constitution, if you will, to find just where it is that it says there is the right to have an abortion.
You'll find rights such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to bear arms. But is there, somewhere alongside them, the right to an abortion?
But since 1973, the right to abortion has existed, and as a constitutional right, at that. It was established by the famous Roe v. Wade and the less well-known Doe v. Bolton.
I give you a thought, offered in a dissenting opinion by Justice Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White. Lest you finish this blog and not be sure where I stand, I agree with Justice White. Whizzer noted the Court was deciding that "the Constitution of the United States values the convenience, whim, or caprice of the putative mother more than the life or potential life of the fetus."
"With all due respect, I dissent," White wrote. "I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the Court's judgment. The Court simply fashions and announces a new constitutional right for pregnant mothers. . . ."
Abortion became a right that day, Jan. 22, 1973 (the justices found that personal rights had been violated in the due process clause of the 14th Amendment), and has been ever since.
You'll find rights such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to bear arms. But is there, somewhere alongside them, the right to an abortion?
But since 1973, the right to abortion has existed, and as a constitutional right, at that. It was established by the famous Roe v. Wade and the less well-known Doe v. Bolton.
I give you a thought, offered in a dissenting opinion by Justice Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White. Lest you finish this blog and not be sure where I stand, I agree with Justice White. Whizzer noted the Court was deciding that "the Constitution of the United States values the convenience, whim, or caprice of the putative mother more than the life or potential life of the fetus."
"With all due respect, I dissent," White wrote. "I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the Court's judgment. The Court simply fashions and announces a new constitutional right for pregnant mothers. . . ."
Abortion became a right that day, Jan. 22, 1973 (the justices found that personal rights had been violated in the due process clause of the 14th Amendment), and has been ever since.
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