will Republicans try to overthrow Roe vs. Wade

11/11/02 | Jared Skinner

[rightwingrevolutionist]

I hope I'm doing this right, I gues I make a comment on what I just wrote. Well Lets hope Republicans aren't going to chicken out, this is the first time and probely the only time we have a chance to overthrow Roe vs. Wade. The only way to make this happen is to write your congressman and tell him you want Roe vs. Wade to be destroyed. "activism is the RIGHT way"

[deport]

Nice first post...... now tell us just how you'd propose to do this.

[Reagan Man]

I'd love to see Roe v Wade overturned, but the country is split on the issue of abortion on demand. Any attempt to knockdown Roe v Wade would be an uphill battle. And besides, there are only three pro-lifers currently on the Supreme Court. Scalia, Reinquest and Thomas.

[Ramius]

Except for the part where republicans don't actually "control" the supreme court... and it's in the hands of the supreme court until further notice...

Abortion is not something within the power of the Republican party to do anything one way or the other.

[Intolerant in NJ]

... a chance to stop abortion...actually what the abortion industry doesn't want the public to know is that invalidating Roe vs. Wade would not end abortion - it would only return the decision to allow abortion or not to each individual state. Since at the time RvW became law about half the states did allow abortion, it's very doubtful that it would be outlawed immediately throughout the country - but it would make this a more local issue which would be more responsive to the wishes of real citizens.......

[stubernx98]

If the Rebublicans do anythng on this subject they will be out of power in 2004. This is not the governments business. let's get government out of our lives, not the opposite. This is the real third rail for the Republicans. They way to fight the abortion problem is through cultural change, not government fiat.

[kylaka]

Never happen, at least not soon. Bush has said, his job re: abortion is to convince 51% of the republic that abortion is wrong. As far as PBA goes he's there already, but as far as first trimester abortions go, he got some work to do.

[Paul Atreides]

"Overthrow." Interesting wording.

[toupsie]

Not my first issue. Taxation, National Security and illegal immigration are mine. Abortion will dealt with through social change not legal. It occured before Roe v. Wade and will if its overturned. Until you change the hearts of 50% of America, abortion will not end as evil as you may feel it is.

[rastus macgill]

Lefty Dems are so stupid.Try to be more convincing when you pose.R v. W is a supreme court descision it can only be overturned by another s court case or Constitutional amendment.The first option is not even pending the second would be difficult to impossible with Rep unanimity much less congress now.Or are you proposing Ashcroft do it under martial law you know when we call it to disenfranchise women and reintroduce African slavery.

[Burkeman1]

Technically not so. All branches are co-equal. If the Supreme couurt makes a ruling that the current executive (president) disagrees with then he can chose to not enforce it. If that is an "issue" then the voters can cast him out in the next election if they think the Court was right and he was wrong and elect a President that agrees with the court. Liberal propaganda has elevated the Supreme Court to Godlike status on reading the tea leaves that is now our Constitution - so to do that today would be almost grounds for a Liberal coup. But the Supreme Court is not the last word on the Constitution or it's meaning. In fact- the refusal of the executive in charge to enforce Supreme Court rulings was supposed to be a check on it's power to our founders. But liberals have created the myth that our judiciary is the last word on all matters of law and it's meaning- and that was never meant to be the case at all!

[Reagan Man]

>>>This is not the governments business.

Wrong!

Killing innocent unborn humans is everyone's business. The main job of the federal government is to protect the lives of all American's, born and unborn and not to promote the killing of our own kind in this horrendous manner.

[Hunble]

I will not enter into a morality debate about abortion.

However, Roe vs. Wade should be reversed on simple Constitutional grounds. Roe vs. Wade was enacted using a rather twisted interpretation of the 4th Amendment, when the 10th Amendment clearly applied.

This is a State issue, and not a power granted to the Federal Government.

[Physicist]

Sneaking suspicion: if I were a Democrat troll trying to make FR look bad, I'd sign up and make a post like this straight off the bat.

And I'd find a way to cram almost two dozen spelling and grammatical errors into it, too.

[MarkeyD]

Why do anything about it, from a legal standpoint. If we were to do anything in that direction all it would do is provide ammunition for the democRATS and all we need is for them to start changing "I told you so". I think at most, we should focus on education. Take the moral high ground, but don't take it to the courts.

[Paleo Conservative]

Roe vs. Wade was enacted using a rather twisted interpretation of the 4th Amendment, when the 10th Amendment clearly applied.

They 10th amendment was misapplied.

[Paul Atreides]

Notice the creator of this post hasn't replied to any of the posts. Also, notice the use of the word "overthrow."

[Burkeman1]

I would love to see a State Supreme court case that upheld some little restriction on abortion- like parental notification- only to see the Supreme court smack it down based on Roe. Then the governor of that state backed by his supreme court refuses to back down and sites the Constitution. What would the Feds do? Would they invade based on the illegal Roe decision?

[CarmichaelPatriot]

It seems to me it would take either a new decision by the Supreme Court, or a Constitutional Amendment, neither of which is likely to occur in the foreseeable future. I wouldn't hold my breathe waiting for it to happen.

As far as I'm concerned, because of the difficulty of either of the above happening, I don't understand why so many people base their political view on this one issue, which neither party is likely to be able to effect. Why not concentrate on the issue where one party or the other can make a real difference (such as taxes).

[Lancey Howard]

The first thing you need to understand is that "overturning Roe v. Wade" would change nothing. A major part of the scumbag Democrat propaganda is that overturning Roe v. Wade would somehow make abortion illegal. It would, of course, do no such thing.

What it would do is turn the issue over to the individual states. At that point, it would be up to the state governments to regulate and determine the limits (if any) of abortion on demand. Whatever decisions they made would presumably reflect the will of the people of their states.

And that is what scares the scumbag Democrats and their billion-dollar abortion industry so much.

But by itself, "overturning Roe v. Wade" would do absolutely nothing - - Planned Parenthood abortion mills would continue their dirty-work without so much as a nanosecond of interruption.