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Re: Pepper sprayed for public safety.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
The position flows from the basis for Roe and when life begins. It would not be absurd if the Court had found life begins at conception, would it? It would have made it much harder to justify the holding of Roe, but it is certainly not absurd.
I've always thought of the holding of Roe being the correct one based upon the thought that we cannot have the power to tell a woman what to do with her body for 9 months. I guess there was no way to use that alone to support the holding though.
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Roe doesn't have to do with when life begins. Roe is a weighing of the interests of the mother and the interests of the potential human life which grows more "compelling" as the pregnancy progresses.
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Texas urges that, apart from the Fourteenth Amendment, life begins at conception and is present throughout pregnancy, and that, therefore, the State has a compelling interest in protecting that life from and after conception. We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.
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