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From: desj@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (David desJardins)
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Subject: Re: Population control & Freedom
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Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 00:37:00 EDT
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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.

   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.
   Have you not read the Constitution?

   -- David desJardins


Note:  Some state constitutions do mention an explicit right to privacy.
This includes California's, I believe.