Posted on 01/20/2006 5:48:42 PM PST by Kaslin
Kennedy just scratching his ass again
Hilarious!!
Not really. The next nomination PresBush gets to make and if approved, will most certainly shift the liberal court to a more conservative court. And I can't wait.
You hope he overturns Roe v. Wade?
Although I am in opposition of abortion I respect a woman's right to choose. I realize that this may confuse you, but that does not concern me much because too many people in this country think that legislating morality is proper.
Abortion is a moral issue and the legislation of it has caused more harm than good. There are those who would consider abortion murder and think those who obtain it and perform it should be prosecuted as murderers. On the other end of the extremes you have the abortion rights liberals who say that it goes beyond just choice to convenience. They belive that the government should not only allow it but provide for it as well.
I sit pretty squarely in the middle of the debate. Although I oppose abortion on my own moral understanding of life and the constitutional rights to it, I also realize that abortion may be necessary at times. In the case of rape and incest, or to save the life of the mother. The mortality rate of premature babies is quite high, but there are many instances of doctors inducing labor of mothers at high risk of late term complications. This could be considered a form of abortion if the baby does not survive. But again, in my opinion this is a moral and not a legal issue. I can't agree with the pro lifers who call those who have abortions murderers. But I also think that the mother who has the abortion for purely vain reasons has done herself and her baby a moral injustice. But it remains a moral issue and, in my opinion, not a legal one.
The federal government should stay out of it and leave it to the individual states to decide where it lies.
In conclusion I would say that the right of choice that Roe v. Wade provides should not be overturned.
It's not the Democrats who worry me. They are as predictable as gravity. It's the Republicans who may scatter like buckshot when they are faced with political pressure.
Muleteam1
Is this another example of hypocrisy from this sanctimonious bag-of-wind?
Unfortunately Alito is just a small move. We still need one more SCOTUS appointment from W that replaces a Justice Kennedy or Ginsburg, for example, before we can consider ourselves safely veering from the liberal cabal of Souter, et al.
That's the Scotch whiskey talking.
If that's your position, then you're pro-choice, aka.pro-abortion on demand.
And, Swimmer, if Roe v Wade does get overturned? So what? Abortions don't stop, the matter just returns to each state for the citizens to decide, as it should be.
Sorry, Teddy, but we don't feel the Supreme Court should be an extension of the ACLU, no matter how much you do.
I remember reading that book about the accident years ago. The name of book now fails me. At any rate, it was flat out obvious that if it was murder. It wouldn't have taken much to save the woman.
If morality isn't the basis for legislation, what is?
It looks like Captain Oldsmobile has lost a few lbs!
"Alito's record is "clear and ominous," Kennedy said,"
Juxtapose those names for correct reading.
I expect Senator Kopechne to ROW AND WADE.
More recently, "in 1995 Pope John Paul II declared that the Church’s teaching on abortion "is unchanged and unchangeable. Therefore, by the authority which Christ conferred upon Peter and his successors . . . I declare that direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, always constitutes a grave moral disorder, since it is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. This doctrine is based upon the natural law and upon the written word of God, is transmitted by the Church’s tradition and taught by the ordinary and universal magisterium. No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the law of God which is written in every human heart, knowable by reason itself, and proclaimed by the Church" (Evangelium Vitae 62)."
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