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Re: Justice Scalia: Abortion Not Prohibited in Constitution
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Originally Posted by crazyflamingos
I cannot see why you would think this. Abortions and laws governing them have been around for as long as medicine has been around. I didn't know that The ancient Romans had laws governing abortions.Or that, but some of the Roman practices were looked on as decadent
The men who wrote our constitution were classically educated I did know thatand would have known thisYes, but I doubt if they saw it as affecting them or our nation.
Why then would they not mention abortions in the our constitution because they didn't think of it as relevant (if they even thought about it at all)unless they were of the opinion that it was not the government's business? That's a stretch
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They also studied the Greeks but did they ever think of one man one vote? Thomas Jefferson did, but John Adams was appalled by it. Earlier western civilizations were on the verge of female suffrage, but no one foresaw that either. ALso there was a host of homosexual activity and heterosexual sleeping around in classic Rome. They surely knew of this, yet didn't make a mention of it either. Possibly because they were also well grounded in the bible which was the basis (along with the Magna Carta) of the first charter to cover the Mayflower bunch. |