
Powers are not rights :-)
The powers not not given to the feds by the constitution/nor prohibited by the feds on the states(think civil rights voting act here) are reserved to the states respectively(state gets first dibs) or the people. Very clearly they are talking governmental powers to regulate in a broad sense as opposed to individual freedoms. This brings into play the constitutional notion of public interest. Is there a determing public interest in abortion? There is a debate to be had for sure but the state of the debate in 1970's in Roe V Wade came down to the determination that until a certain fetal viability it was the individual's decision to choose. Has science since then widened the debate? Im sure it has,
thanx,
bill
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
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