re: South Carolina Supreme Court rules state consitution contains right to privacy, abortion

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I'm with Foo here, how do you get to a right to privacy to a right to an abortion?

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Historically, penumbras, mostly

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Sounds like they need to amend their state constitution at this point.

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Or, just replace their elected justices. Or even recall them, if SC law allows it.

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Its a good litmus test for the states’ rights absolutists.

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That just tells me you only understood about half of the objection to Roe. Maybe less than half.

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Uh, why not? It's their right.

Also, the language of the different constitutions are different.

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Fine. Then let the legislatures codify it. For that matter, I’d say the same thing at the federal level.

A court using “privacy” as a cloak for something the legislature doesn’t explicitly enable is a weak and slippery slope.

Bravo!

Pro life people are simpletons

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Pro life people are simpletons

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When does life begin?

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Being for states’ rights doesn’t mean you stop advocating for states to ban barbarism

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But the "states rights" angle becomes completely irrelevant if your real goal is absolute prohibition of abortion.

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Why if there is a state constitutional provision?

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There isn't.

I may be absolutely oversimplifying this, but isn't the crux of the issue not if the act is private but rather if it's life or not?


If you have the right to an abortion due to privacy, why can't I "privately" kill any other person?

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He's basically telling the legislature how they screwed up, which is common in Columbia.

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Telling them how past legislatures screwed up and how the current one can fix this. Time to rewrite part of the State Constitution. I suspect that the issue will be prioritized.