But it's a "Super-duper precedent"
Posted on 05/04/2006 6:17:45 AM PDT by Brilliant
For 33 years Harris Interactive has been measuring attitudes toward the landmark Supreme Court decision that made abortions legal during the first three months of pregnancy.
The latest telephone survey of 1,016 adults indicates Roe v. Wade is supported by a slim 49% to 47% plurality, compared with 52% who favored the decision in 2005 (see poll) and 57% in 1998.
Despite apparent waning support, a substantial majority (63%) of those polled don't think it is likely that this Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade over the next few years.
However, 40% of those polled favor laws that would make it more difficult for a woman to get an abortion, while another 40% say no change should be made to existing abortion laws, and 15% favor laws that would make it easier to get an abortion.
The percentage of U.S. adults who say women should be permitted to get an abortion under all circumstance (24%) has remained rather stable over the last decade. In comparison, 20% of adults think a woman should be able to get an abortion under no circumstances, compared with 21% a year ago.
Recently, the South Dakota state legislature passed a law that would ban all abortions except to save the life of the mother (see article). Forty-four percent of respondents said they would support such a law if it was introduced in their state, compared with 52% who would oppose it...
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Here's the core of the democrat party. The way lefties that have taken them over.
Even if one agrees with the outcome of Roe v. Wade, it was terrible jurisprudence. There is no baiss for it in the Constitution, as Justice Blackmun, who wrote it, essentially admitted when he said he found it in "the penumbras and emanations" of the Constitution. Memo to Justice Blackmun and his successors: there are no penumbras; there are no emanations. There is simply the Constitution.
Roe took the matter out of the legislative arena, where it belongs, and arrogated it to a small group of judges.
Now, the argument is made that Roe is "settled law" because it's been around so long and thus, it can't be overturned. Well, Plessy v. Ferguson stood for a longer time than Roe has stood today before Plessy was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education. So by liberal logic, then, Brown was an improper decision, wasn't it?
Right now, we have only 4 votes to overturn, at most: Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito. We would need at least one more. Hopefully, old man Stevens will have to resign within the next year or so.
That is well within the margin of error, meaning that the issue is essentially even.
Add them to the 40% who think the law doesn't need to change, and that's a lot bigger than the 40% who want it to be more restrictive.
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