Posted on 12/07/2004 6:28:42 AM PST by UnbornChild
It would take years for challenges to Roe v. Wade to work up through the appeals courts and be accepted, briefed and argued at the Supreme Court. Disregarding that, what would the legal landscape look like, state by state, if the court today overturned the 1973 constitutional guarantees of a woman's rights to sexual privacy and the ability to control her own reproductive decisions?
The general answer is as varied as the nation's geography. In a post-Roe future, abortion might be outlawed in many states and permitted in varying degrees in many others.
Pols know that the death of Roe ensures that only NY, CA, OR, WA, MA and perhaps PA will countenance frivolous abortions. Without contraceptive abortions to end inconvenient pregnancies, the abortion industry will need a new source of revenue. The most likely? Stem cells for reproductive cloning and spare parts.
The FREEDOM issue lies in the "SEX ACT" not in the abortion act which deems OWNERSHIP of the life of another human being and its right to life as the right of the mother.
INTREP
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