Okay, then.
GOP Senate hopeful Ken Buck told a group of supporters in June that the Supreme Court wrongly inserted the right to privacy in the decision with Roe vs. Wade.
The video released Wednesday shows Buck taking questions in Lake City from a group of supporters.
Buck said, “I think Roe versus Wade was wrongly decided.”
“Why is that?” an attendee asked.
“Why? Well . . . a long constitutional issue. But the, the founding fathers did not write into the constitution the right to privacy. It was created in, in some cases that proceeded Roe versus Wade. And was in my view legislated into the constitution. By the, by the Supreme Court,” Buck said.
“The right to privacy?” someone clarified.
“The right to privacy as it pertains to abortion,” Buck said.
Buck’s campaign spokesman Owen Loftus said Buck’s view is that the privacy argument in Roe v. Wade is “dubious.”
It's much like his rejection of a separation of church and state--it's not expressly included in the Constitution, so it doesn't (or shouldn't) exist. In that way he's essentially a "tenther." But he's not like Joe "Noun Verb Unconstitutional" Miller, he's not talking about the "enumerated powers," but forming it around his personal beliefs. Suppose that the substantive due process doctrine developed in the Court in the Griswold, Roe, and Casey decision hadn't had to deal with the rights of women to control their own destiny through the legal use of contraception and abortion? Would Buck think that a right to privacy shouldn't exist in just about any other aspect of someone's personal life?
Or is it just more evidence of Buck's hostility toward women, from his no-exceptions abortion position, to his support for the personhood amendment that would declare a fertilized egg a human, and in the process make many forms of birth control illegal, to his refusal to prosecute a rape case because he believed the victim had had an abortion.