Can anyone explain the rationale for Roe v. Wade?

[fujiyama]

I am no legal expert I think that it was based off of a right to privacy under the fourth amendment (granted that's not explicitly stated under the fourth amendment), but for some reason I just don't find the reasoning very sound.

Can anyone explain the reasoning? I personally am pro choice and am opposed to any restrictions on abortion, and while I find the outcome of RvW right, allowing access in all states, I still don't understand the reasoning. BTW, as an aside, did you hear how it was almost overturned in the Casey case? Apparenrly Kennedy switched in the end (too bad he didn't switch in '00 in Bush v. Gore).

[Dookus]

1. It's based on the

"penumbra" or shadow, created by other rights. Basically, if the constitution won't let the government in your house, by extension, it won't let the government in your uterus.

[izzie]

2. Only John Ashcroft gets in there. Right?

Do you think it will be over-turned?

[patricia92243]

3. I keep snickering over the phrase "can't get into you uterus" true but...

still a funny turn of phrase. I love it!

[no_hypocrisy]

4. The "penumbra" of privacy rights was originally recognized in a SC case

a few years earlier, Griswold. In that case, the state of Connecticutt made it illegal to sell or provide birth control of any kind to MARRIED couples. A birth control center run by Bill Baird sued to challenge the constitutionality, claiming this law impermissibly interfered with the privacy between a woman and her physician and between a husband and a wife, the latter having the right to make choices alone in private regarding whether or not to have children (read, the right to engage in a sexual relationship without fear of pregnancy). A couple of years later, a similar case made it to the Supremes wherein it was decided that UNMARRIED consumers could legally purchase or receive birth control devices because of the same privacy rights.

When Roe was decided, the privacy rights recognized in the aforementioned cases were extended to the right of a woman to decide without government interference and/or penalty the right to terminate her pregnancy and not be coerced to be a mother.

[demigoddess]

6. A little history here

In the late sixties, right before I was to be married I went to a dr. to get birth control pills, and I thought I was in big trouble for a few minutes. The dr. relented a little when I told him I was to be married in a month but he also insisted on running a Wasserman test, which was required to get married in those days.

[wildwww2]

5. My body is no ones god damned issue. But my own. So simple

that repukelicans don`t mind that Bu$h paid for an abortion for his own youthful fun. But any non GOPer. No way. Freedom of speech is only proper coming from non-liberals if you turn on the TV any of those over paid over dressed jerks will tell you.
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