Thursday, December 01, 2005

George Will On Privacy and Abortion...

Excerpts from today's NY Post...

December 1, 2005 -- "HENRY J. Friendly, who died in 1986, was perhaps the most distinguished American judge never to serve on the Supreme Court, and he almost spared the nation the poisonous consequences of that court's 1973 truncation of democratic debate about abortion policy. The story of that missed blessing was told recently by Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in an address to the Federalist Society.

Since 1973, the privacy right has... "morphed." Its original constitutional meaning pertained to preserving personal seclusion and keeping personal information secret. Now it means personal autonomy — everyone's right to do whatever he or she pleases so long as others are not harmed."

Read all of George, please do.

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