Posted on 08/29/2004 11:51:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I agree, there is no chance to get the 2/3 vote necessary. The only way to overturn RvW would be to appoint conservative judges.
I would like to comment that I disagree with virtually all sides of the abortion debate. The issue in this article is, 'are fetuses persons?' The answer is simply, yes, ie., all fetuses are individuals or individuus (can not be divided). A conceptus or early embryo, less than 100 cells or so, is dividuus or capable of being divided into more than one person, eg., identical twins.
I disagree with the Court's opinion that a fetus is not a person. On the other hand I do not believe the Medical proffession is neglent everytime a baby is born dead, less than perfect, or because the ilk of John Edwards needs a new beach houes, town house or country estate.
Tt's sure not a puppy.
Fetuses: Justices aren't all that humane either.
"I'm afraid that "lesser evil" stands ... and assures us that abortion NEVER will be illegal again."
With Christ ALL things are possible!
This is exactly the reason I support a constitutional amendment.
I never thought the iron curtain and the Soviet Union would fall in my life time, but they did. Whether it happens during my life time or not, the laws upholding abortin will also fall.
"Jerry Bullard, a lawyer for Reese and her husband, Donnie Reese, said he was disappointed in the ruling."
John Edwards might have won the case - he has/had an excellent record in 'personal injury' cases. :)
Neither is a liberal.
=== I never thought the iron curtain and the Soviet Union would fall in my life time, but they did.
It was very Dramatic, no ... the Way the Wall fell INTO the West.
You need to check your premises. A little time spent studying the stated objectives and strategies of the former Soviets also might be helpful in ascertaining whether they're fans of Sun Tzu and what they meant by: we're not strong enough now but, once we are, we'll launch the greatest peace movement the world has ever seen and -- just when the West least expects it -- crush it with our clenched fist.
Nothing has changed ... unless, of course, you take a close look at closely we now resemble the former Soviet Union in many essential respects.
A nation of Christians who regularly and consciously exclude the Triune Creator -- Father, Son and Holy Spirit -- from the most intimate and creative act they'll ever perform this life has no right to claim that "with Christ" all things are possible where the overturning of abortion is concerned.
Abortion is indeed a logical and reasonable part of any "right" to remain unpregnant while still having sex.
The sooner more self-styled Christians understand this much, the better our hopes will be for prevailing "with Christ" against the horrific and genocidal embrace of abortion by this so-called Christian nation.
That's a ridiculous claim.
In the Soviet Union as in many of the formerly Eastern block countries, their problems are huge. However, they enjoy far more liberties and countries like Poland, enjoy a far better (though still way below ours) standard of living.
I have met countless people from that area of the world and have gotten to know some of them very well. While they all acknowledge great difficulties in their respective countries, they say it was far worse when they were children and young adults under the old regime.
Things have reached a level, perhaps, between the two but the fact that New Russians can be as decadent as their Western enlightened counterparts is not really a ringing endorsement of the "saving graces of western materialism."
I wanted very much to see that things had changed -- it's one reason I went to Russia. A fresh coat of paint and state sanction of the newly-canonized Romanovs doesn't quite cut it for me.
However, I concede it will probably take a long, long time. But it will happen.
=== As time goes by, people will understand your point with greater clarity.
I guess that's part of the drawback of "living on the edge" as I do.
=)
Regards, Tough Stough.
On that point, I couldn't agree more. I have had that discussion with them also. But those are hardly the liberties to which I referred.
When did you go to the Soviet Union?
Two years ago. I'd like to go back since I was with a group at the time and was only able to ditch them with any regularity while in Moscow.
This is ridiculous. The baby isn't even born yet.
The Texas Medical Association, the OB-Gyn's and the Pharmacists was doing everything they could to block this bill, so there was a compromise to protect them from malpractice, in order to take the incremental change that allows for criminal charges in negligence and intentional harm that causes a death.
I fussed and fumed and wrote letters to protest the TMA'sinsistence on tort reform and the exemption from malpractice in these cases. But, as with the cloning and embryonic stem cell issue, I couldn't get anyone to stand for the unborn. The lawyer who was fighting this the hardest works for the TMA, but supposedly in this case, he was working for a "citizens' group." (I probably got lost in the explanation somewhere.)
I don't believe that the Texas Supreme Court could miss the definition of "individual" in the Prenatal Protection Act. By law, the unborn child is and "individual."
Now stop being a gloomy gus!
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