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Old 11-02-2004, 09:24 PM
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Originally Posted by stekim";p=&quot View Post
The Constitution does not guarantee the right to marry and have children.
Technically you are right, but you are still wrong. The Constitution doesn't absolutely guarantee either of those things, but both are considered fundamental rights and a law abridging a fundamental right must pass a legal test that almost no law survives: "The law must be necessary to achieve a compelling governmental interest."

That is a huge burden and so few laws get past it that most people who know about these things just assume that a law that abridges one of these rights will fail.
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