Claiming Darwin for the Left???

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Mon Nov 16 21:55:11 PST 1998


JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:


> In a message dated 98-11-16 16:46:39 EST, you write:
>
> << Roe v
> Wade the court made the distinction that a baby's constitutional right starts
> at birth.
> >>
>
> No, it didn't. Neither Roe nor Casey--which has replaced Roe as the Court's
> last word on abortion--give _any_ constitutional rights to babies. They just
> didn't give any to fetuses. Babies have had whatever constitutional rights
> they always had.

You are correct, my error in haste to get through messages today. The court ruled that once you are born you are a person under the Constitution. So babies in the U.S. have a right to due process.

Marta



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