Can You Be Pro-life But Not Want Abortions Illegal?

[Hassan]

[quote name='Aloysius' post='1694674' date='Nov 5 2008, 06:26 PM']WHICH MEANS that the tenth ammendment applies... fancy how that little ammendment applies to absolutely anything and everything that the Constitution "makes no judments about"... if the Constitution makes no judgements, then every state in the union has the absolute right to either legalize or illegalize it according to the Constitution. The Supreme Law of the Land demands that this issue be left to the states or, if the states do not wish to do anything about it, to the individuals.[/quote]


that is not actually what the 10th ammendment says. It says

[i]The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.[/i]

it does not say what the constitution "makes no judgement about" is a state power.

[Hassan]

[quote name='Noel's angel' post='1694740' date='Nov 5 2008, 07:42 PM']That's like saying it's ok to use condoms to help prevent AIDS. People use that argument all the time. 'Oh, they're gonna have sex anyway...'

I voted 'no' (obviously) for reasons already stated on the previous page. If you are of the opinion that something is a sin, why on earth would you want it to be legal?[/quote]


No, you are confusing the issues.

"I beleive x is protected for the individual by the constitution"

"I think x is moral/I would like it to be legal"

are two distinct judgements.

I think bigotry is wicked and evil. That is one judgement. I beleive the first ammendment gives individuals the right to promote bigotry and ignorance. That is another judgement. Simply because I do or do not LIKE something the constitution allows does not mean the constitution conforms to my wishes.

I can judge that abortion is wicked and evil. I can also judge that the justices correctly extracted an implied right in the constitution. The second judgement has nothing to do with my views of the morality of the derived right, it is simply an objective judgement about the text and history of the constitution.