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To: HiTech RedNeck
Actually, a simple Act of Congress, signed by the President, could instruct SCOTUS that it no longer had jurisdiction over the abortion issue.

This has not been done, in the past, primarily because the prolife “purists” do not accept a “states rights” solution.

A Constitutional Amendment is politically impossible, but the purists don't understand how to fight this battle.

8 posted on 06/07/2009 11:39:03 AM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Kansas58

If a Personhood act was passed by Congress and signed by the President, the unborn would be recognized as persons with the Constitutional right to life, and abortion would then be illegal.


13 posted on 06/07/2009 11:43:52 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: Kansas58

The evil has metastasized enough that, over a decade ago, a conference of state supreme courts agreed that it would carry on Roe v. Wade if Congress did something like that. State constitutional amendments would then be needed.


15 posted on 06/07/2009 11:44:23 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (In only 19 weeks, 0 has enabled us to agree with the Taliban [his empty speechifying] - Iron Munro)
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To: Kansas58

I am 100% against abortion and would accept it being taken out of the realm of the Supreme Court’s misclaimed jurisdiction and left to the states, because many would institute laws against it in the near term.

In the long term, I still want a Constitutional Right to Life Amendment.


64 posted on 06/07/2009 1:25:33 PM PDT by TheFourthMagi
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