Dan Minette wrote: > ----- 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. >
Got an explicit example of this occuring exactly as you lay it out, or are you simply engaging in supposition? xponent Hypothesis Vs. Reality Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
