Posted on 10/05/2008 12:01:08 PM PDT by markomalley
WASHINGTON -- Every four years, defenders of abortion rights proclaim that the fate of Roe vs. Wade hangs on the outcome of the presidential election.
This year, they may be right.
Through most of the 1990s and until recently, the Supreme Court had a solid 6-3 majority in favor of upholding the right of a woman to choose abortion. But the margin has shrunk to one, now that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is retired and has been replaced by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.
And Justice John Paul Stevens, a leader of the narrow majority for abortion rights, is 88.
"Clearly, Roe is on the line this time," said Indiana University law professor Dawn Johnsen, a former lawyer for NARAL Pro-Choice America. "It is quite clear they have four votes against it. If the next president appoints one more, the odds are it will be overruled."
Some advocates worry that the perennial cries of "Roe is falling" has had the effect of muting such claims.
"What we find scary is that people don't understand what's at stake," said Kathryn Kolbert, president of People for the American Way. "In the next four years, one to as many as three Supreme Court justices may step down, and they all will come from the liberal end of the court."
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You are exactly right. The thing is that most people ignore the fact that when this country is doing the right thing, God will bless it as he has in the past.
I get accused of being a one issue voter and that’s fine with me. In my eyes, abortion and the other culture of life issues are the ones that will make or break this nation. If we continue to murder the unborn, guilt the elderly and sick into suicide or euthanasia, if we continue to create life to destroy it in the name of science, if we allow the cloning of humans I fear the wrath we deserve will not be long in coming.
And this is the exact OPPOSITE of what kids will be taught if Obama and his minions get their way.
True, but "liberty" is another of those rights, and for 89 years after the Declaration of Independence nearly half of the states OK'd slavery.
Even if we had one more pro-life justice on the Supreme Court, I wouldn't count on the Court sweeping away the last 35 years' worth of rulings, and even if they did, activist lawyers at lower levels would try to render their decision as meaningless as possible. There would be more hope if it was left to the states, so some states could go back to strict restrictions...just as some states were able to end slavery within their borders before 1861. It's not ideal, but the best that might be achievable given the present strength of the pro-death forces.
If Barack wins, even before there are any Supreme Court vacancies, he'll be trying to sweep away any state restrictions on abortion on demand all the time, including partial birth abortion, and sweeping away protections for babies who survive an abortion. That's his track record.
Absolutely. They say the Roe might be overturned like it was a bad thing.
Seven of the nine justices were picked by Republicans, and not one of the nine recognizes the unalienable right to life of the unborn person. The best you can get out of them is an argument over the “lawful” way to butcher them.
And McCain's is support for the destruction of human embryos, the funding of Planned Parenthood to the tune of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, and the belief that states' rights trump the unalienable right to life.
Most of the folks here have picked their poison, but as for me, I don't willingly drink poison.
For the life of me I can't understand why some Christians and Jews support the genocide of the unborn. When HE calls the rolls and they must stand before His throne for judgment surly they must answer for the way they voted in pro-genocide politicians.
Whether it is the wholesale slaughter of living men, women or children or the unborn it is still carries one name genocide.
Obama's spinning/lying went in several directions, but the end result has been to obfuscate the issue with almost demonic brilliance, even going so far as to misdirect the public toward the very, very rare survival of an abortion attempt, as if a 'fetus' scheduled for abortion accidentally survived the abortion attempt and foes of Roe v Wade are trying to force medical stand-by for all abortions on the chance that this extremely rare occurrence happens. THAT IS THE LIE UPON WHICH HE'S DEPENDING.
What Obama was protecting was a method to kill alive unborn preemies by forcing their too early deliver, then neglecting these alive, struggling to breathe babies so they die unattended, alone. THAT IS EVIL and Obama was trying to protect that method of killing born alive children.
People have been mislead mightily, to see his work in Illinois as opposing a very rare situation, as if his efforts were heroic in preventing erosion to Roe v Wade. Truth is, the abortion method he was protecting was becoming so prevalent that the United States Congress wrote a bill banning it!
The truth about Barack Obama is much more dark and demonic: Obama knew that the induced labor abortion was becoming popular; Obama worked to prevent this abortion method from being outlawed! Obama worked to protect infanticide, clear, undeniable infanticide, the purposeful birthing of alive babies, to kill them outside of the female's body.
Please, read the post at #28 and #29.
If the mother's truly were in danger a C-Section can be preformed and both lives saved. Had two myself and my grandson was a C-Section birth. Both my DIL or myself would have died if we hadn't had C-Sections. We wanted our children.
True, we have been hearing of it’s increasing use in the past few years. The libs fight hard to kill the innocent, and harder still to preserve the lives of convicted killers.
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