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did you see
what ruth bigger ginsburg had to say
this
uh... is she's been listening to the show
i'm telling you chigger wire for selling were only three blocks away from spring
quarter
share while people are staff has got to have been listening to showcase i've
been saying this for years
and it's an uncomfortable thing to say as eight
progressive
and aid liberal and democrat an advocate of women's rights
but i believe it's true
and that is you know as you know i don't i can find anywhere the constitutional
where the constitution gives the supreme court the right to strike down laws
in fact if anything i find the opposite article three section two you can read
it yourself
it says that the supreme court shell operate under regular as
been a regulated by congress
congress shall define how the supreme court operates and you know what
parameters within or parameters they can operate
but the supreme court since eighteen oh three of them are reverses medicine case
has taken to unto themselves the power to strike down was made by congress and
signed by the president
and bus become the most powerful branch of government
and what i what i've been saying for some long-time
is that hero v wade
the supreme court
by making that decision and making it in as detailed a fashion as they did
inventing the this i mean do three tren esters wasn't invented there actually
are nine months of pregnancy but
but inventing these is these distinctions between the third for
second third trimester of pregnancy
and and coming up with separate basically rules for each of these three
train esters within which states can make laws
and the basically canto on abortion the first trimester
and you can easily outlawing abortion the third trimester and it's more
difficult the second trimester in the middle
on any other you know today love you all this kinda stuff
there by doing that what i've been saying for years and years and years is
that by doing that the supreme court took that out of a hassle legislature
and stop to the debate that we were having in the united states in nineteen
seventy-four about that topic i remember that time
i remember being in a high school and having a hard of god
because he's a friend i i i didn't actually know this woman personally knew
who she was she was in my class
two one eight didn't show up anymore
she got a back alley abortion echoed hair abortion
a do-it-yourself is somehow
and died of sepsis
badha blood was
and that was that you know you talk to people who worry
in high school in the sixties
in the early seventies main
many of them that will tell you a story that the other this was not that i'm
comin
this is just in a working-class neighborhood in lansing michigan
so the debate was
and the rich were all getting iberian portions left and right
an effect on you some of those
at that time girls
you know sixteen seventeen eighteen people
who who with the in the called indian states
as a very common surgical procedure all i'm having problems of honest repair and
i have a d_n_c_
and uh... dilation and something or other quarters a share something
and it's basically kind scraping out the warm
if you're pregnant it'll end up pregnancy too
and when rafter roe v_ wade all of a sudden there were any more d_n_c_'s new
fic philly common before that i remember
so might point and and i i'm
openly
in favor of a woman making
those choices
right so i i'd believe that abortion should be between a woman and her
physician
and if she's religious her pastor or god
and cup or her family help but it should be up to her
now that's set
because the supreme court jumped into this and said no we're the lord gods of
this country were that were the monarchy we're gonna make the rules
the aborted
the debate
and so because we never had a good debate on the topic in the united states
because there was never a general consensus among we the people the we had
actually worked this stuff out
the anti-abortion movement was actually in powered by that decision
eucharistic *** ginsburg
herself
an advocate of a woman's right to choose
ever since the decision she said momentum has been
on the abortion pill inside fueled by a stud killing a state-by-state campaign a
displaced more restrictions on abortion
that was my concern she said that the court had given opponents of the access
to abortion target to email relentlessly by criticism of rolled is that it seems
to have stopped at the moment in that was on the side of change
and then she also image you goes on to say i think that this is a really
important point
well roe v_ wade was decided based on
privacy on the constitution fourth amendment rights unko for the moment
because the supreme court had decided that they could only make laws that they
had to do with the constitution
back in
in uh...
eighteen oh three
so
the supreme court
base this on privacy rather than on women's rights
and this was the big gain of the women's rights movement as well in nineteen
sixty or sixty one the first time legal birth control was sold in the united
states the first legal
hormonal
their birth control pill this uh... define was something that actually
worked
and out of that came the women's movement women's rights movement the
women's powerboat
and frankly the abortion
issue debate should have been around the
the rights of women rather than around
the fourth amendment
and what thomas jefferson john adams thought
yet we're not all that font of the rights of women
and this is exactly what
ginsburg says she says
the the ruling was also this morning during degree
ginsburg said because it was not arguing we determined that dancing women's
rights rather the role opinion written by justice harry blackmun a man
centered on the right to privacy in a certain extent a once decision
whether not to end pregnancy
i'd just do you know when i saw this
she said she told the students she prefers judicial restraint
she said the core converted stamp of approval on the side of changing what
that change develop in the political process
so what she was saying was that the court should have in roe v_ raid
still
voted in favor of robert done in a very very narrow basis and leave all that
other stuff
to the legislature to the we the people
to our elected representatives
and i think at that happened is that we would not hear beef
forty years on fifty years on alums have been since nineteen seventy three
it's forty years ago
yannick tiny fingers ep
forty years on
still having this argument
the supreme court should not
be the arbiter of the law school and it should be we the people should be the
people themselves to quote thomas jefferson
about this issue but
speaking about this issue
when he was that's why did he why did he opposed bar reverses madison he said
because you know
my construction the constitution is very different now which is state
i believe that i'm doing this memory
i believe the peach branch
well executive rest of my red rival but he says such as in each branch
should be its own should determine for itself
but the constitution means into those three branches
are elected by the people and so all timidly it's in the hands
of the people themselves
to decide what constitution
and it's really been the case the supreme court has
i mean the supreme court upheld slavery for it
half a century
and then decided not to down i mean it's it's just yesterday f_ held up park
right in the united states frankfurt owns two centuries
supreme court buddhist doctrine has done so much better
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