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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Law - Interesting juxtaposition of legal views this week
Earlier this week the ILB pointed to Justice Scalia's 60 Minutes interview. After reading Jon Murray's story in the Indianapolis Star this morning headed "Brizzi aims to expand fetal homicide laws: Deaths of unborn twins lead prosecutor to seek language that includes any child in the womb," I Iooked back at the Scalia transcript to locate this quote:
"What is the connection between your Catholicism, your Jesuit education, and your judicial philosophy?" Stahl asks."It has nothing to do with how I decide cases," Scalia replies. "My job is to interpret the Constitution accurately. And indeed, there are anti-abortion people who think that the constitution requires a state to prohibit abortion. They say that the Equal Protection Clause requires that you treat a helpless human being that's still in the womb the way you treat other human beings. I think that's wrong. I think when the Constitution says that persons are entitled to equal protection of the laws, I think it clearly means walking-around persons. You don't count pregnant women twice."
Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 30, 2008 09:17 AM
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