Kennedy Says Alito 'Itching to Overturn Roe v. Wade'

CNS News ^ | January 20, 2006 | Nathan Burchfiel

[isthisnickcool]

Abortion is a moral issue...

Tell that to the dead kid. Oh, you can't cuz they are dead.

[LibLieSlayer]

Hey teddy... that itching is your herpes flair-up!

LLS

[kublia khan]

"itching to overturn Roe v. Wade."

At least he's not itching to overturn a Buick in the Chappaquiddick.

[bannie]

Kennedy: The ITCHY white meat.

[bill1952]

The federal government should stay out of it and leave it to the individual states to decide where it lies.

Excuse me, but that is precisely what Roe forbids, and was intended to forbid.

The states have zero power to decide virtually anything re. abortions. - It's all in the hands of the Federal judiciary, not the Government at any level.

[phoenix0468]

In conclusion I would say that the right of choice that Roe v. Wade provides should not be overturned.

I'm going to invoke my right of remission for that statement. I believe the constitution expressly prohibits abortion with the right to life statement. I also believe that it should not be a federal question. It should be left up to each state whether to allow abortion, and in what circumstances. There are some things that, IMO, are better left to the states to decide. I believe that it would reduce the type of political animosities that rage within the beltway.

[caisson71]

Nothing a little "splash" of Chivas won't cure.

[Angus MacGregor]

Bogus NECK BRACES are itchy, Ted, not decent judges.

[barj]

Sheesh! Is there no other topic for dems other than abortion rights and environmental preservation?

[Brilliant]

Kennedy realizes that if it weren't for Roe v. Wade, he'd have a whole lot bigger family than he's got. So much so that it'd be embarrassing even to him.

[You Dirty Rats]

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.

The Judicial branch of the Federal Government took the issue out of the hands of the States. The two sentences above are contradictory.

[msnimje]

What did Teddy's mother think of abortion? I bet she would be totally mortified at her son's lust for the blood of babies.

[phoenix0468]

Well, I am quite internally devided on the issue anyway. I agree with you that it is a crime against the life of the aborted child. I won't use those technical terms like fetus or embryo because we both know that it is and will become a child if given the chance. Would you agree with abortion in the case of saving a mothers life? Or, and I know this is even more vague, in the case of rape or incest? I would definitely agree with it in the first case. The later case would bring up far to many cases of false claims IMO.

[msnimje]

In conclusion I would say that the right of choice that Roe v. Wade provides should not be overturned

It should be overturned simply because it is an abomination to the Constitution. It was spun out of whole cloth and there are scores of Liberal Law professors who will tell you so.

[The_Media_never_lie]

If Kennedy was as good at rescue swimming as he is at reading minds, Mary Jo Kopeckne would be alive today.

[phoenix0468]

The constitution.

[phoenix0468]

see #46 and get back with me. My verdict is still out on this issue. This issue affects the fairer sex more than it does me personally, although I have had experience with it. I have had to help my significant other make the choice, and we chose correctly thank goodness.

[willyd]

If the Democrats were smart, they would want Alito to overturn Roe v Wade so that their voting numbers would swell in 18 or so years when there are thousands more Dems in their districts.

[phoenix0468]

I apologize, see #46. I realized their contradiction about a second and half after posting and truly did not mean it in that way. In retrospect my feelings are that it should be a state and not a federal question, if that clears it up.

[Reagan Man]

A few facts. There have been 45,000,000 abortions since Roe v Wade was made US law by the Supreme Court in 1973. Roughly 95% of those abortions have nothing to do with rape, incest or the life/health of the mother. 95% of those abortions took place as a form of birth control.

"Our nation-wide policy of abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy was neither voted for by our people, nor enacted by our legislators--not a single state had such unrestricted abortion before the Supreme Court decreed it to be national policy in 1973. [It was] an act of raw judicial power"...

"We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life."

-President Ronald Reagan "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation"