Saturday, October 22, 2005

Support Choice, Not Roe

This Richard Cohen Washington Post column appeared in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Whatever the case, the very basis of the Roe v. Wade decision -- the one that grounds abortion rights in the Constitution -- strikes many people now as faintly ridiculous. Whatever abortion may be, it cannot simply be a matter of privacy.

Although he still favors permitting abortion as a matter of policy.


In passing he says,

As a layman, it's hard for me to raise profound constitutional objections to the decision.

If constitutional objections are beyond a layman, then what of "We the People" and the consent of the governed?