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JButky
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Very simply, Roe argued that abortion was justified because it could not be determined whether a fetus was a human life; they called it non viable, or a clump of cells, or a potential human life. It was on this basis solely that the fetus was not a person and abortion could be included under an extended right to privacy. Now that science and biology can pretty definitively demonstrate otherwise, it will be a matter of time before the ruling will be overturned.
It was Justice Blackmun himself who stated so in the original Roe case.
"If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant’s case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment.”
It just so happens that Catholic viewpoint was correct before the law got it wrong.
Now that science and biology has caught up, there is basis in the original ruling sufficient to toss Roe completely out. Personhood cannot be separated from human life, and human life begins at conception.
Joe B