Raffey
1 min readMay 8, 2022

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I’d just posted a comment to another author when your reply came in and I think it relevant, so will paste it here as well.

The author is labor law attorney, David Sackman, who wrote this piece in March on unenumerated rights. https://medium.com/@qcp/yes-senator-the-founding-fathers-did-indeed-envision-unenumerated-rights-32d0bcedf51f

Hopefully my following reply, will connect the dots.

“If I understand you correctly, this is worse than I thought. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

Unenumerated rights is the same thing as unalienable rights (meaning G-d given human rights).

You are telling us that the Constitution explicitly prohibits infringement on all G-d given human rights with language in the 9th amendment that reads,

“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

Based on the 9th amendment, abortion is an unenumerated — or G-d given human right — that the government cannot infringe upon.

The language in the court’s draft decision regarding Roe v Wade, opens the door to the elimination of every unenumerated right, thereby reducing our rights to ONLY those mentioned in the Constitution. IOW, this decision is not just about abortion, this is about every right NOT mentioned in the Constitution.

Holy shit.”

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Raffey
Raffey

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