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She returned
to Dallas, where friends advised her to assert falsely that she had been raped,
because then she could obtain a legal abortion (with the understanding that Texas'
anti-abortion laws allowed abortion in the cases of rape and incest). However, this
scheme failed, as there was no police report documenting the alleged rape. She
attempted to obtain an illegal abortion, but found the unauthorized site shuttered,
closed down by the police. Eventually, she was referred to attorneys Linda Coffee
and Sarah Weddington.
In 1970, attorneys Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington filed suit in a U.S. District
Court in Texas on behalf of Norma L. McCorvey (under the alias Jane Roe). At the
time, McCorvey was no longer claiming her pregnancy was the result of rape, and
she later acknowledged she had lied earlier about having been raped.The defendant
in the case was Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade, representing the State
of Texas. "Rape" is not mentioned anywhere in the court documents and was never
a consideration in Roe v. Wade.Norma McCorvey's affidavit does not include the
word "rape".
The district court ruled in McCorvey's favor on the merits, but declined to grant an
injunction against the enforcement of the laws barring abortion.[8] The district
court's decision was based upon the Ninth Amendment, and the court also relied
upon a concurring opinion by Justice Arthur Goldberg in the 1965 Supreme Court
case of Griswold v. Connecticut, regarding a right to use contraceptives. Few state
laws proscribed contraceptives in 1965 when the Griswold case was decided,
whereas abortion was widely proscribed by state laws in the early 1970s.
Roe v. Wade ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court on appeal. Following a first
round of arguments, Justice Harry Blackmun drafted a preliminary opinion that
emphasized what he saw as the Texas law's vagueness. Justices William Rehnquist
and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. joined the Supreme Court too late to hear the first round of
arguments. Therefore, Chief Justice Warren Burger proposed that the case be
reargued; this took place on October 11, 1972. Weddington continued to represent
Roe, and Texas Assistant Attorney General Robert C. Flowers stepped in to replace
Wade. Justice William O. Douglas threatened to write a dissent from the reargument
order, but was coaxed out of the action by his colleagues, and his dissent was
merely mentioned in the reargument order without further statement or opinion.
he United States Constitution and The Amendments to it, are the only bona-fide
federal laws of the land, since they were the only ones voted on by the people
themselves as defined by the Constitution which is its own authority.
You may read the US Constitution online at this website that I found by searching
Google:
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
Amendment I
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of
the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of
the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants
shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and
particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be
seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless
on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land
or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public
danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in
jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness
against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of
law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public
trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been
committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be
informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the
witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his
favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars,
the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be
otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules
of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and
unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
Amendment X
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.*
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Below that are my arguments for the civil liberties for the innocent.
The way I see it, from a logical, reasonable and trained nurse's experience and a
Law School's Professor's teaching of the US Constitution, the wicked and illegal,
immoral abortion-as-so-called-"right" laws violate these principles of the US
Constitution:
* Amendment 2 is about the right for one to protect one's self from harm or
destruction which of course is the foundation for Amendment Two, the right to bear
arms. For what reason does a person need to bear arms? Self-preservation! How
could a tiny human in the womb protect the self from the destruction of the paid
assassin of abortionists?
* The duty of government is to protect the innocents. The Courts in the US have
become skewed in thinking that it is their duty to protect the wicked and seem to
have little if any concern about the innocents who were harmed or murdered. The
right to the protection of the government if one is innocent is what the Amendments
were about, the intention that innocents would not be wrongly punished. But the
wicked have bribed, and manipulated the Courts, the Police, the lawyers until the
intent of the Amendments is backward now. The Courts think they are supposed to
protect the wicked and that is wrong. They are supposed to punish the wicked and
protect the innocent. Are not the tiniest, most defenseless humans who are not
capable of even speaking [in the womb, or out of it]truly innocent?
* Amendment 4, [IV] the right to be secure in one's own dwelling. Is not the womb
the dwelling of the tiny human in utero? Should not that tiny human have safety
and protection there in the dwelling where the human lives? And should not a
woman's womb, [medical term=uterus] be safe from searches and seizures since it
is within her very body? Should an assassin be allowed to force open her innermost
places and rip out and destroy the human life residing there [when a woman is
pregnant, or "with child".]
* Amendment 6 [VI] the guarantees to a speedy trial if accused of a crime and the
right to question witnesses against one, and a right to an appeal. Where are these
protections for the innocents in the womb? When do they get to confront the wicked
mother that wants to kill them, or the more wicked abortionist assassin of
innocents? When do innocents in the womb get to question those who hate them
and seek their lives? When do they get Court appointed attorneys to defend their
right to life? When do they get an appeal for their lives to be spared? When do they
get to take their case to the US Supreme Court with someone who is not part and
parcel of the baby-killing-industry-legal-profession to represent them? When? When
will the focus of world governments be on protecting the innocent and punishing the
wicked?
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~vote-prolife/id11.html