Debra wrote: > Put a few more conservative state judges in, as Bush is currently trying to do, and such cases may > go farther. Even without the addition of Bush's conservative judges, a > couple of cases got to the Supreme Court in the past few years, but the > Supreme Court's decisions had the effect of upholding Roe v. Wade. One > more conservative Supreme Court justice, and that would probably not be > the case.
I don't know about that. Conservative judges are not known for being judicial activists, but rather for uphoding consitutional law rights. As I understand it (very simplisiticly I admit) Roe v. Wade tied in the right to abortion to the 4th amendment and right to privacy. > And, as I understand it, when there are so many contradictory laws that > there's no clearcut direction, the Supreme Court would eventually accept > a case so they could sort it all out. If their decision had the effect > of not allowing abortions, I don't know if states could still have > pro-choice laws. New York legalized abortions before Roe v Wade was > decided and so before any federal laws regarding abortion were in place. I think a number of states had legalized abortion before Roe v. Wade and some like California tightened up the state consitution after that decision as insurance in the chance Roe v. Wade was ever overturned. Where I start to have a problem with the rhetoric is when I hear people start bashing and automatically lumping in ALL Christians and conservatives universally as "extremists" and anti-choice and various other and sundry terms with regard to this issue. It gives me the creeps and in more paranoid moments makes me think that there are many in the U.S. who would like to totally disenfranchise Christians and conservatives from any participation and representation in government. When it comes to government policies and laws these groups have many other issues and concerns other than abortion. It also seems that some of the disagreements have nothing to do with the right to abortion per se, but rather to the taxpayer funding of abortions in other countries, or whether 12 year old girls should have the right to have an abortion without their parents' knowledge. There are valid questions, IMO, that have nothing to do with the right itself, yet they seemed to be all lumped into an anti-choice, "extremist" category. Kakki
