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To: Prokopton
No they're not.

Contradiction is of absolutely no value anywhere at any time.

State your case or stop wasting words and time.

23 posted on 08/26/2007 3:33:40 PM PDT by Chunga (Conservatives Don't Let Democrats Win Elections. They Vote Republican.)
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To: Chunga
State your case or stop wasting words and time

Although your declaration, without explanation, was hardly worthy of a lengthy reply, I will acquiesce.

As far as overturning Roe goes, the Court does not write opinions merely stating that a previous decision was wrong and leave it at that.

If SCOTUS writes a decision contrary to Roe, it will not be a simple “overturning” of the previous decision that would then leave the legality of abortion question status quo ante. The SCOTUS will not find that there is no right to privacy, the right the Roe decision was based on. If SCOTUS decides against abortion it will most likely find that the enumerated right to life trumps the unenumerated right to privacy when they are in conflict. If they find there is a “right to life”, they will most certainly find that it is a fundamental right protected by the U.S. Constitution. If it is a Constitutionally protected right they will not allow the states, except perhaps in limited circumstances, to disparage this right by the enactment of state laws.

In other words, they will not say that is OK for a state to enact laws allowing abortion after they have found the right to life to be a fundamental, Constitutionally protected, right. There may be exceptions, depending on how broadly they define any right to life, that would allow states to regulate certain aspects of abortion, but they would have to be consistent with their interpretation of the right to life.

31 posted on 08/26/2007 3:50:07 PM PDT by Prokopton
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