In a speech at the University of Richmond in Virginia on Friday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia confirmed again his view that the Constitution contains no so-called abortion rights.
He told the audience during his speech, that is only now drawing attention, that the founders of the nation never envisioned a right to an abortion when drafting the Constitution that is supposed to guide the federal courts.
Scalia criticized, according to an AP report, those who misinterpret the 14th Amendment’s due process clause to include abortion.
“But some of the liberties the Supreme Court has found to be protected by that word—liberty—nobody thought constituted a liberty when the 14th Amendment was adopted,” Scalia said. “Abortion? It was criminal in all the states.”
Scalia repeated his view that the Constitution should be taken literally, as written, rather than interpreting it to include rights not intended to be protected under law.
“The Constitution says what it says and it doesn’t say anything more. For flexibility, all you need is a legislature and a ballot box,” he added, in terms of how abortion advocates should attempt to change the constitution if they want to have legal abortions.
By allowing the Supreme Court to create rights not enumerated by the Constitution – “you’re allowing five out of nine hotshot lawyers to run the country.” Exactly...Roe v. Wade is responsible for more than 50 million abortions, based on the decision of 7 justices.
2 comments:
You're targetting the wrong decision. Roe v Wade was just the obvious extension of Griswold v. Connecticut. There's the one you really should be directing your anger towards. An added bonus for you catholics, too: Lawrence v Texas is another case dependent upon Griswold.
You're targetting the wrong decision. Roe v Wade was just the obvious extension of Griswold v. Connecticut. There's the one you really should be directing your anger towards. An added bonus for you catholics, too: Lawrence v Texas is another case dependent upon Griswold.
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