akuma587 on 24 March 2009
Snesboy said:
You guys speak of health care as a right and not a privilege. What about Roe v. Wade? What about abortion?
You expect me to believe health care is a right when many children don't even get a shot at life? Pathetic. |
You raise a valid point. But, setting aside the issue of whether or not abortion is murder, why should society be able to tell a woman how to manage her own life? Many people who are pro-life are also against the government getting involved in telling people how to raise their children.
The same constitutional right that the Supreme Court recognizes as protecting a woman's right to have an aborition (Due Process in the 14th and the 9th) has other rights tied to it.
Where do we draw the line when limiting those rights? Should we limit people's choices whether or not to use contraception (protected by this right)? Should we limit people's ability to choose where to send their children to public or private school? Should we limit people's ability to teach their children whatever religion they want? When you start talking about taking away those rights, those provisions in the Constitution don't sound so bad after all.
The problem is that when you start taking away rights, the constitutional basis for those rights is less broad. And then you risk losing even more rights. You can't look at the rights just as individual rights. They are all connected.
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