06-28-2022, 04:01 PM
(06-28-2022, 03:47 PM)GMDino Wrote: Yep. Lies, damned lies and statistics...lol.
But we haven't even touched the religious aspect that may have helped "shape" the views of the justices.
And I was only talking about why abortion would not have been in the constitution any more than the right to chop down trees. No one thought anything of it.
I personally never argue that it wasn't specifically stated. Not everything can be stated. I would just argue that no part of the constitution addressed something that it would fall under. To me, and I am not a lawyer or Constitutional scholar, the tenth is more relevant than the ninth in a straight reading. Of course I don't know all of the case law that was built upon those two.
“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”-Thurgood Marshall