“I support the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the landmark case of Roe v. Wade (1973).”
Already Koch demonstrates that he supports judicial activism without any Constitutional basis.
“The Supreme Court found a constitutional right empowering women, in consultation with their physicians, to abort the fetus they were carrying if they so desired.”
By this same logic, they could find a constitutional right empowering fathers, in consultation with their financial advisors, to abandon their children in the desert if they couldn’t afford them.
“The procedure is so gruesome that Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan described it as “close to infanticide.”
Close to infanticide? Close to infanticide? Don’t you love it when liberals try to act like they care, but can’t quite pull it off.
“Interestingly, the two newest Supreme Court justices, John Roberts and Samuel Alito, during their Senate confirmation process stated in Congressional hearings their solemn support for the doctrine of stare decisis, a belief in precedent with earlier U.S. Supreme Court case outcomes governing their decisions.”
But aren’t you glad they tempered their respect for stare decisis on such cases as Dred Scott and Plessy vs. Ferguson? Don’t you really mean, Mr. Koch, that you want stare decisis consideration on cases that *you* care about?
“The next presidential election in 2008 will revolve around two major issues, the war in Iraq and the operating table.”
Funny how he can’t even be honest about the central issue, namely protecting human life. If abortion is merely an issue of what happens at the operating table, is rape merely an issue of sexual choice?
“The Democratic Party would be best served if it did not make restoration of partial-birth abortion its goal, but urged the drawing of a line against further deterioration of the rights now accorded women seeking an abortion.”
Oh Ed, you *don’t* know the Democrats very well do you?