how can abortion be a constitutionally protected right and doing drugs not be? i mean this is crazy. please read the constitionally protected language before answering.
2007-09-23 13:36:09 · 14 answers · asked by blktan23 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
pepper you have 4 brain cells in ur head. they cant tell u what to eat? ok so i can have peyote? sorry yoru wrong.
2007-09-23 16:30:49 · update #1
hey cora f'a'g isnt an abortion commerce as well?
2007-09-23 16:31:30 · update #2
The abortion ruling was bogus....
2007-09-23 13:44:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋
Abortion and drug laws are apples and oranges. The federal government has no business making laws regarding the personal and private choices of an individual - what to eat, whether to reproduce, what to smoke or what to drink. People who think they know best for everyone else encourage this type of legislation. As a country, we're drowning in it.
You cannot grow your own marijuana in the back yard (it was once a cash crop). Commerce need not be involved if grown for personal use.
You can brew your own beer, ferment your own wine, distill your own spirits, grow your own tobacco - but you are limited in the amounts of each; so as not to interfere with general trade and commerce in these items.
You are quite free, however, to go to the doc and get a 'script for any number of laboratory created pseudo-drugs that haven't been tried and tested for a thousand years and have a laundry list of known side-effects.
Pharmaceutical pollution: people take so much Prozac it's in the ground water. Scientists found that trace amounts of Prozac found in fish and frogs delay development. Mussels don't like it either, it confuses them. How's that for "oddly enough .. "?
When a population reaches the stage that it needs a bureaucratic entity to outline its life on a point by point basis - HERE'S YOUR SIGN.
(An aside - I saw a question from a lady not too long ago, upset because her school had told her she could not include cookies in her child's lunch - and she was outraged. As a smoker, I wanted to poke her and say .. "they've come for you".)
2007-09-23 22:13:30 · answer #2 · answered by pepper 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The laws about drugs and the laws about abortion are not related to each other. Each stands on its own merits. Further, the law is sometimes an @ss...it doesn't make sense because many laws came into existence 'back in the day' and are still on the books even though times have changed.
2007-09-23 20:43:38 · answer #3 · answered by Noah H 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The Courts came down with the split based on the arguments of bodily integrity -- determining what happens inside one's own body --- versus the the regulation of commerce -- what can be sold.
Congress can regulate commerce -- so they can regulate what can be sold, including drugs.
But Congress is much more limited in regulating internal functions of the body, so the Court was able to push that into the fundamental rights arena.
See the Court cases discussing these issues -- particularly the Cruzan and Casey decisions -- for details.
2007-09-23 20:43:08 · answer #4 · answered by coragryph 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
there's actually no law against doing drugs, the laws are against possession or sale or driving under the influence of.
anyway, one has nothing to do with the other. i love how anti-choice people always try to compare abortion to all kinds of irrelevant things. if you don't like abortion, don't have one. but please don't presume to think you can tell American women what to do about their own reproduction.
2007-09-23 20:54:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Supremed don't base their decisions based on The Constitution or we would have half of the stupid decisions we have today.
Second Amendment protects our Right to bare arms yet look how many states have handgun bans or all of the other gun bans that are out there.
The Supremes will rule however they feel, independent of The Constitution.
It's SAD!!!
2007-09-23 20:43:59 · answer #6 · answered by elmar66 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I dont think the two have anything to do with each other,
Abortion is pregnancy & drugs are subtances that can be abused
2007-09-23 20:42:01 · answer #7 · answered by "Angel" 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
um, because drugs not only affect the person doing them, but also the people around them. also, drugs lead to bodily harm. abortion, if done without complications, does not.
2007-09-24 09:49:41 · answer #8 · answered by GothicLady 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the government needs to stay out of both matters. It really has nothing to do with them or anyone else for that matter.
2007-09-23 20:42:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's a medical/privacy issue versus commodity issue. That is why.
2007-09-23 20:44:44 · answer #10 · answered by tiny Valkyrie 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
OMG I KNOW!
like the school im at right now wont administer the morning after pill because they think its abortion but they allow us two transgressions with drugs with no penalty and unlimited counts of underage drinking. something is just wrong with the world.
anyways, i think abortion is wrong and drugs are wrong. But hey, with drugs you kill yourself. with abortion, you kill a baby. So abortion is worse than drugs? I dont know. I'm pro-life and anti-drug. lol
2007-09-23 20:44:50 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋