Exactly! What a load of crap! The court could not even agree with whether the 9th or 14th apply. The ninth is rather meaningless but hopeful. The 14th says nothing about privacy or abortion
or anything to do with... It simply is a poorly conceived amendment at the close of the civil war. It speaks nothing about privacy or a woman's rights. It does speak to due process which sure might be a point in the right to life of a child. But I will not make that argument even though it is closer to the point in the 14th.
Read this Convoluted stuff;
"The Court declined to adopt the district court's
Ninth Amendment rationale, and instead asserted that the "right of privacy, whether it be founded in the
Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the district court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy."
[38] Douglas, in his concurring opinion in the companion case, Doe, stated more emphatically, "The Ninth Amendment obviously does not create federally enforceable rights."
Nothing in this decision belongs in the Constitution. However, it is apparent, women, indeed our society does need concerns addressed, and rights protected, as does our society, but this decision points to nothing meaningful in law to settle the issue. It is time for the best we have to come with a solution or at least get the process to a solution back on track for resolution.
The 9th is an empty bucket waiting for a need. Perhaps the with careful logic worked out with reasoned mix of sound thought and sensitive feeling can be used to lead reasonable men and women settle on an acceptable law. Possible even giving meaning to the empty 9th.
