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Originally Posted by Ghostwriter
Where? The Bill of Rights are the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. Which one gives a woman the right to choose?
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Well it was argued by the court during Roe v Wade that either the 9th or the 14th amendment gave it. It gets confusing unless you are a student of the law.
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The Court declined to adopt the district court's Ninth Amendment rationale, and instead asserted that the "right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the district court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy."[14] Douglas in his concurring opinion in the companion case Doe v. Bolton, stated more emphatically that, "The Ninth Amendment obviously does not create federally enforceable rights."[15] Thus, the Roe majority rested its opinion squarely on the Constitution's due process clause.
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