{"id":394001,"date":"2019-01-24T12:55:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T11:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roe-47-years-and-counting\/"},"modified":"2019-01-24T12:55:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T11:55:57","slug":"roe-47-years-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roe-47-years-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Roe: 47 Years and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nOn January 20, 1973, Richard Nixon was inaugurated to his second term as president.\u00a0\u00a0His landslide victory over\u00a0Sen. George McGovern (D-SD) \u2014 who had been labeled the\u00a0candidate of \u201cacid, amnesty, and abortion\u201d \u2014 was driven by a \u201cSouthern strategy\u201d that reconfigured national politics.<\/p>\n

Two days after Nixon\u2019s inauguration, on the January 22nd<\/sup>, the\u00a0then all-male Supreme Court voted 7-2, in\u00a0Roe v Wade<\/i>, to overturn a Texas law making it a crime to assist a woman to terminate her pregnancy. The Count found the law violated a woman\u2019s due process rights.<\/p>\n

Often forgotten, Justice Harry Blackmun noted, \u201c\u2026 throughout the 19th\u00a0<\/sup>Century prevailing legal abortion practices were far freer than they are today, persuades us that the word \u2018person,\u2019 as used in the Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the unborn \u2026.\u201d The\u00a0Roe\u00a0<\/i>decision forced 46 states to liberalize their abortion laws and became the defining issue of the culture wars.<\/p>\n

Personal privacy is at the heart of the debate over\u00a0Roe\u00a0<\/i>as well as many of the other sex-related Court decisions over\u00a0the last half-century. Before\u00a0Roe<\/i>, each state had the authority to determine the limits of a woman\u2019s privacy, especially in terms of determining her pregnancy \u2026 and, possibly, an abortion.<\/p>\n

Do Americans have a right to privacy?\u00a0\u00a0This \u201cright\u201d is not enumerated in the\u00a0Constitution\u00a0<\/i>but\u00a0the Ninth Amendment states, \u201cThe enumeration in the Constitution, of certain…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On January 20, 1973, Richard Nixon was inaugurated to his second term as president.\u00a0\u00a0His landslide victory over\u00a0Sen. George McGovern (D-SD) \u2014 who had been labeled the\u00a0candidate of \u201cacid, amnesty, and abortion\u201d \u2014 was driven by a \u201cSouthern strategy\u201d that reconfigured national politics. Two days after Nixon\u2019s inauguration, on the January […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}