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You are being disingenious and kind of ignoring the larger picture--which is exactly the response the people who want to take rights away are hoping for...

And as pointed out elsewhere, the basis for abortion and privacy rights exists in the 9th Amendment. The error in Roe V Wade was in not basing it in the 9th.

Lots of rights have been created over time (like corporate personhood rights) or have been changed (like 2nd amendment rights). The reality, if you want to be all constitutional about it is that the government ONLY has the powers enumerated to it with the other rights reserved either to the states or the people. In the case of something like having to give birth to a child and raise it, perhaps that right and decision should be left to the person most affected by it? Meaning NOT the government.

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