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To: Sandy
The downside of course is, by abusing the Commerce Clause in such a left-wing big government manner, conservatives have pretty much sold out any principles they might have once had.

The plaintiff never addressed the Commerce Clause Sandy. That makes your point moot unless you want an activist court addressing issues not before it. However, there is hope, Scalia joined homas' dissent so maybe he is rethinking Raich.

All for the sake of a ban that won't stop a single abortion.

You don't know that. In fact, you can't know that. Yes, this law only addresses one method of killing second and third trimester unborn babies but it does make one thing quite clear. Those being killed are human beings and the SCOTUS states that rather clearly.

Yippee.

One small step for mankind and all that.

779 posted on 04/18/2007 6:17:11 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
The plaintiff never addressed the Commerce Clause Sandy.

I know that. That's sort of my point. Conservatives should have been the ones making that point from the beginning, in which case this law would have never been passed. Unfortunately, Bush "conservatives" are no longer distinguishable from FDR liberals. I see you noticed Thomas has sort of invited a future commerce clause case. No surprise how that'll turn out, though. Left playing right and right playing left again, no doubt, unless conservatives come to their senses in the meantime. I'm not holding my breath though.

Those being killed are human beings

Right. And now they'll just be killed in a different manner. What a win.

One small step for mankind and all that.

Hardly. More like another large step for "conservative" big government and all that. I know you know that.

800 posted on 04/18/2007 7:09:53 PM PDT by Sandy
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