# Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade (No longer a draft as of 06-24-2022.)

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**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Tags:** roe\_vs\_wade\_abortion
**Created:** [May 3, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-has-overturned-roe-v-wade-no-longer-a-draft-as-of-06-24-2022/963862 "2022-05-03T01:04:52Z")
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### Author: ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-has-overturned-roe-v-wade-no-longer-a-draft-as-of-06-24-2022/963862/483 "2022-05-05T21:13:40Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> There’s no ninth amendment in your Constitution?
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> The people who wrote the Constitution did not intend for the list of rights they enumerated to be seen as a complete list. They explicitly acknowledged that people have other constitutional rights that aren’t stated in the text.

See also,

> [@Does the Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution itself protect individuals from State infringement of unenumerated rights?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-ninth-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution-itself-protect-individuals-from-state-infringement-of-unenumerated-rights/922125):
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> Does the Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution itself protect individuals from State infringement of unenumerated rights? I don’t think it does. The Tenth Amendment ensures that the federal government is limited to enumerated powers. I do not think the Ninth Amendment grants the federal government any power to protect unenumerated rights, therefore I do not think the Ninth Amendment itself protects individuals from State infringement of unenumerated rights. Current jurisprudence su…

~Max

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