Is there a legal definition of African-American in the US?

What part of the US Constitution is R v W based upon?

• Does any US citizen have "privacy" rights which trump or supersede all other legal consideration? According to legal consensus what is the definition of the term "viable"? What relationship does "legal" have with "moral"? Can something be illegal but moral? Legal but immoral? I have a 17 year old child, totally dependant on the care of others for survival. Is this child therefore unviable and subject to parental discretion to live or die? What about a 2 year old? What are the Fathers rights to defend the lives of his family? His unborn children?

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  Which question are you asking? Roe V Wade falls under the idea that 2 persons can't legally have the same ownership of one body. Not only that -once you give the unborn rights to the woman's body, you can't help but actually limit her rights. So if she wants to drink, we all know it isn't good for the fetus & it may cause damage & it may mean AFTER the birth of the baby that the baby would be removed from her care, BUT if we give the fetus rights to mom's body then we make drinking actually illegal for her & take a woman & REDUCE her rights as a legal adult. So maybe you think we SHOULD punish a woman who drinks while pregnant & put her in jail - what then for the woman who drinks without knowing she is pregnant? Ignorance of the law or accident is NO excuse in any other situation. If you unknowingly give a ride to a friend who happens to be fleeing from the law without telling you - you are STILL guilty of aiding & abetting. So what then - all sexually active women of childbearing age should not drink alcohol in case they are pregnant? See the deal is either the fetus has rights as an individual (such as not being damaged by alcohol in utero) or they do not have rights until born. That is the deal. Anything other than that is way too grey & muddy to not start limiting the rights of women in general. And I think you don't have a clear understanding of viable. A 2 yr old child that needs YOUR kidney in order ot survive is "not viable"...without your kidney. If someone requires someone else's body or body parts be involved for their own survival, then that person is not viable unto themselves & is therefore unfortunately at the mercy of the body's owner as to whether they want ot share it or not. That is true for the 2 yr old, the 17 yr old, the fetus, or even YOU if you needed a donor organ. You could not compel someone to have to donate an organ to you or to a child simply because they were a match & you or someone else needed it to survive. We cannot compel parents to donate their body parts to their own children either. And moral & ethical are circumstantial & cultural. It is considered immoral here to go topless in public - yet in many places women are topless all day long. Some people consider homosexuality to be immoral & other identify that as WHO they ARE. Some people think that it is unethical to or immoral to do lots of things - but these things aren't standard cross cultural & things you do would make people's head spin in other cultures. What amazes me is that people worry so much for the unborn & then set back & feel totally ethical to set in their heated/air-conditioned homes with cushy furniture & TV/computers/electronics & eat until they are fat while children literally starve to death on this planet & die from simple things like lack of clean water while we leave our water running for our grass or wash our cars. I can't believe the simple act of participating in THAT travesty doesn't leave people lying in bed awake at night feeling a bit guilty on their fluffy pillows while some mother somewhere is rocking her baby off into a permanent sleep because she has NOTHING else she can offer. It crushes my heart actually. And if we then say "Well that is the mother's responsibility to provide the food & the clean water & the medicine" well then I say it is sad sad day when we are more concerned for the unborn then for the children HERE that suffer & if you say it is the mother's responsibility then I say it is also - her CHOICE if she is fortunate enough to live in a place that actually affords her a choice.