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From: janw@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Population control & Freedom
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Date: Sun, 28-Sep-86 16:49:00 EDT
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[desj@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU ]
>In article <7220@sun.uucp> rdh@sun.UUCP (Robert Hartman) writes:
>>
>>BTW, the Constitution guarantees everyone a right to privacy, but
>>I  have  yet to see a Constitutional guarantee of a right to have
>>children. That's my obligatory little jab at Jan's position,  but
>>I won't push it.

Surely the "right to privacy" guarantees the right *not* to abort
at least as much as the right to abort.

>   This is a peculiar statement, in as much as the Constitution does not
>mention either a right to privacy or a right to bear children.  Both of
>these rights, to the extent that they are Constitutionally protected,
>are based on interpretation and inference, rather than on explicit
>guarantees.

That's true, as far as it goes. But some rights are so basic
that they had never been questioned, and therefore were not
specifically asserted. The Framers noticed this problem,
and *addressed* it in the 9th and 10th amendments.

			Jan Wasilewsky