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Could America Get a Supreme Court that Would Make Abortion Illegal?

Posted on 11/20/2016 6:51:09 AM PST by pinochet

If the Trump administration appoints 2 conservative Supreme Court judges, would that be enough to overturn Roe v Wade?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: abortion; prolife; roevwade; supremecourt
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To: pinochet

Eventually.


41 posted on 11/20/2016 7:41:09 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Don Corleone

they shouldn’t decide cases based on predecessors, but by whether it’s constitutional or not - period. Leave their stupid feelings or ideas what is best out of it!

Judges past and present are human and have made mistakes and purposeful bad choices at times.


42 posted on 11/20/2016 7:42:30 AM PST by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: proxy_user

What about not killing?

Doesn’t anyone believe the Commandments anymore?

“Thou shalt not kill.”


43 posted on 11/20/2016 7:43:30 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: pinochet
babies deserve life
44 posted on 11/20/2016 7:47:34 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: pinochet

Not very likely. It wasn’t illegal even before Roe v Wade. It was simply a state issue.


45 posted on 11/20/2016 7:48:20 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Hostage
No, but they could follow the Constitution and leave the matter to the States where it properly belongs.

It is not a State matter anymore than Euthanasia is, but keep telling yourself that murder of an unborn is a right. Both are murder of the innocent.

46 posted on 11/20/2016 7:49:28 AM PST by itsahoot (Three words I don't want to hear is Comprehensive Immigration Reform.)
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To: Salvation

The commandment is, “Though shall not murder”, not kill.

But abortion is murder, so you are correct.


47 posted on 11/20/2016 7:51:22 AM PST by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: nevergore
The woman made her choice when she got pregnant....

Not everyone who becomes pregnant made a choice to become pregnant. It can happen even when precautions are taken.

The individual states are capable of making these decisions as to abortion laws. That is the Constitutional way.

48 posted on 11/20/2016 7:52:19 AM PST by southern rock
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To: MGunny
Abortion is something a woman must deal with on a personal level. The Court should not decide either way. I do not believe it should be taxpayer funded though. All of the “pro choice” places that provide abortion services need to have those funds yanked immediately.

No, Roe v Wade needs to be overturned. It declares that there is a constitutional right to an abortion. Whether one is pro-live or pro-abort, it is absurd to believe that aborting a child is a constitutional right. It was a ridiculous decision that needs to be overturned.

49 posted on 11/20/2016 7:59:43 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: pinochet

No, it would not make abortion illegal it would at most leave the decision to the states


50 posted on 11/20/2016 8:01:04 AM PST by shawnlaw
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To: southern rock

.....and THAT’s the childs problem? How?


51 posted on 11/20/2016 8:02:34 AM PST by nevergore
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To: pinochet

No. Roberts testified that he regards it as “settled law” and won’t entertain a case at SCOTUS that overturns it.

Said it during his confirmation hearing during a grilling by one of the lefties.

I had to pick myself off the floor when I heard it.


52 posted on 11/20/2016 8:11:07 AM PST by Dana1960
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To: proxy_user

“Instead, the states could pass whatever laws they want.”

Exactly. At the state level is where abortion law should have remained.

IOM - Roe-v-Wade usurped states-rights, causing needless contention over the issue these many long years.
(not to mention the millions more children that lost their lives because of that decision, along with the erosion of human dignity, family cohesion, the mental health of those women who were lied to about the affects of abortion, etc, etc. ).


53 posted on 11/20/2016 8:12:41 AM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: MGunny
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54 posted on 11/20/2016 8:20:09 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Department of Redundancy Department.)
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To: fruser1

“Neither are narcotics, yet they managed to pull that off at the federal level.”

Nope. They aren’t so long as the narcotic is made, sold and consumed in a single state. Once they are sold across state lines, then Congress probably has the right to regulate that process under the interstate commerce clause.


55 posted on 11/20/2016 8:21:45 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: SandyInSeattle; pinochet
Sandy: Listen. Human rights begin where human life begins.

Viability outside the womb is a measure of the NICU's technology, not of the baby's humanity.

56 posted on 11/20/2016 8:23:52 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (It's not the unborn child's "full humanity" that's in question, but our own.)
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To: nevergore; MGunny
As my neighbor on Georgia Avenue used to say:

Chooz Before You Skrooz.

57 posted on 11/20/2016 8:25:22 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (It's not the unborn child's "full humanity" that's in question, but our own.)
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To: pinochet

Right now Clarence Thomas is the only conservative on the supreme court.

Alito, Roberts, and Rehnquist are various degrees of right of center to dead center.

Kennedy is left of center.

Meanwhile the rest are radical leftists - Ginsberg, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Breyer.

So you have 4 arch-leftists and one true conservative on the court. Trumps first pick would make it 2 conservatives, but replacing Scalia is just maintenance, not a pickup that moves the court to the right.

Fortunately for us, the 3 oldest justices are flaming libs.

Ginsberg is 83, Kennedy is 78, and Breyer is 76.

So replacing any or all of them with originalist constitutional conservatives moves the court to the right. We would need to replace ALL of them to have any hope of overturning Roe v. Wade. If Trump gets 8 years, he will have 5 or 6 years to place SCOTUS justices before the Dems start filibustering him at the end of his term.

Ginsberg would be 89, Kennedy 84, and Breyer 82. So it is not completely impossible that any or all of these commie libs could be replaced.

Prayers up all these cretins leave or die while Trump has the power to replace them, and hopefully with fairly young people. I mean, Kagan is 55. She is going to be on the court forever. I will be disappointed if Trump picks people in their 70s. Here is hoping he picks people under 60 so that are there for a long, long time.


58 posted on 11/20/2016 8:26:31 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The GOP will see the light, because Trump will make them feel the heat.)
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To: Mustangman; refermech
Really, M-Man? Abortion should never be illegal?

So, in principle, you think a doctor has a right to kill one patient at the request of another?

Mind you, I doubt it's politically possible to outlaw abortion altogether, anytime soon.

Yet we have to work toward that horizon. In a civilized country, people do not have the right to murder their offspring.

59 posted on 11/20/2016 8:30:18 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (It's not the unborn child's "full humanity" that's in question, but our own.)
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To: pinochet

No. The legality question goes back to the states where it belongs.


60 posted on 11/20/2016 8:30:35 AM PST by MortMan (A just nation applies it laws faithfully.)
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