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Dr. Supreme
RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch
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DLS- The main reason that the RR organized in the 80′s and became politically active was specifically to reverse Roe v Wade. They have been wanting someone in office who would appoint Conservative justices to SCOTUS since Ronald Reagan. After their dream candidate Robert Bork was defeated by a liberal backlash, they had to make do with O’Connor who was more of a libertarian and ended up being the swing vote on the court. Kennedy, appointed by Bush 41 was likewise a huge disappointment to the right. That was why they made such an issue out of getting Roberts and Alito on the court instead of Harriet Miers. They wanted a reliable conservative vote on the issue, and you know it.
Bush couldn’t come out while campaigning and admit he wanted to reverse Roe, so he did it by appointing conservative justices. This is just the first test case in a long line of test cases to see if the SC can uphold any limit Congress places on abortion rights. That’s why regardless of the other failures of the Bush administration, the evangelicals, who comprise 100 million people and are mostly in the South, still back him unquestioningly. This is the issue they care about- this and gay mariage.
AustinRoth is correct. Roe vs. Wade is lousy law, and its overturning would probably be a better state of affairs than the existing situation. The regulation of abortion needs to be conducted through the legislative process, not by judicial fiat. The absolutists in both camps are likely to be unhappy, but I think the trend in the states has been to allow abortions in some circumstances, with provisions for women’s physical health, but not an absolute right to abortion or an absolute prohibition of abortion.
DLS claims that I lie about his position, which is that the states should have the right to regulate abortion to whatever extent they wish. Really? I quote:
In addition DLS makes several posts that certainly seem to indicate that he follows Bork’s judicial philosophy, which certainly allows the states to govern all issues not explicitly excepted by the Constitution including birth control. He considers Griswold as flawed as Roe.
superdestroyer-April 21st, 2007 at 8:44 am
[The huge number of liberals who believe that the government should not regulate commerence when it has to do with abortion but should be able to regulate everything else is amazing]
Abortion as commerce? Spelling aside….but…..are you nuts?
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