----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Denton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 10:30 AM Subject: Re: Abortion and the Democratic Party Re: The American PoliticalLandscape Today
On 5/18/05, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 08:46 PM Tuesday 5/17/2005, Dan Minette wrote: > <snip> > >The courts have essentially decided that this is a fact. That is the > >foundation of Roe vs. Wade. But, I hope you can see how I'm troubled that > >the order of actions by someone else, not one's own state, determines one's > >humaness. >I think that is a misreading of Roe v. Wade. Based on evidence >available at the time the Supreme Court ruled for no state involvement >in the first trimester, state regulation in the second, and only to >save the life of the mother in the third. You can argue about where >the lines are drawn but one side in the debate doesn't want any lines. As far as I can tell, your reading and Harry Blackmum's opinions of this are different: and I quote from his opinion: <quote> (To summarize and to repeat: 1. A state criminal abortion statute of the current Texas type, that excepts from criminality only a lifesaving procedure on behalf of the mother, without regard to pregnancy stage and without recognition of the other interests involved, is violative of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. (a) For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician. (b) For the stage subsequent to approximately the end of the first trimester, the State, in promoting its interest in the health of the mother, may, if it chooses, regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health. (c) For the stage subsequent to viability, the State in promoting its interest in the potentiality of human life may, if it chooses, regulate, and even proscribe, abortion except where it is necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother. ....it is so ordered" <end quote> Health is clearly in there, not just life. DSM 300.02 is a clear easy out. All it takes is a quick visit to the right free clinic to get this out. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
