Do you think it's time to reverse Roe v. Wade? [FR Straw Poll]

FR | 10/12/05 | Us

[Jeff Head]

33 years past time my friend. It was an abhoration the day the Court created such a "right" out of thin air and then applied it to this murderous, horrific practise.

IMHO, our founders and original court members would have tarred and featherd those who voted for it, then removed them from the court and thrown them in jail.

[Dominick]

Yes reverse it, force it to the legislatures to vote. Then we can see who can stay elected after voting to murder children.

[Tax-chick]

yes

[verity]

"What say you?"

None of your business.:-)

[Hoodlum91]

I agree w/you about Roberts & Meiers. I don't think he'll vote to overturn Roe and I think she probably would.

[steve-b]

The bottom line is that the GOP political leadership is not at all inclined to seat judges who would reverse Roe. As it stands, they have the grievance to nurture at no political cost; if the court got out of the way, they'd have to do something about the issue, and whatever they did would offend a big chunk of their base.

[SoothingDave]

It's quite an insult to think that our Founding Fathers were unaware of a practice that was thousands of years old, especially when you consider Jefferson's Classical scholarship. They were aware of it, yet they did not make it a Federal offense. On the other hand, I don't see them writing a sweeping right to privacy as something to be protected (it's not explicit in Madison's Bill of Rights), but then again, perhaps they felt no need to do so, and assumed it was a given (ah, the Federalist/anti-Federalist debates again).

The Founding Fathers never envisioned the Federal gov't having authority in mundane state matters like law and order. Homocide is simply not a federal issue.

SD

[deport]

FR Abortion Poll

Poll still open, click above to vote

Free Republic Opinion Poll: I don't believe the liberal claims that the majority of Americans support abortion as a right. Would you favor laws making abortion illegal in your state?

Composite Opinion
Yes	40.1%		4,562
Yes, with exceptions	35.7%		4,053
No	21.1%		2,396
Undecided	1.6%		181
Pass	1.5%		173
	100.0%		11,365
Member Opinion
Yes	41.1%		2,557
Yes, with exceptions	39.3%		2,443
No	15.7%		979
Pass	2.0%		127
Undecided	1.8%		115
	99.9%		6,221
Non-Member Opinion
Yes	39.0%		2,005
Yes, with exceptions	31.3%		1,610
No	27.5%		1,417
Undecided	1.3%		66
Pass	0.9%		46
	100.0%		5,144

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[mosquitobite]

Yes. It should be up to the states to decide.

[grellis]

YES

[grellis]

If males would be MEN and protect and provide for the young they procreate...

It still takes two to tango.

If more WOMEN would keep their knees together, the whole issue would damn near disappear.

-old fashioned gal

[day10]

YES

[pitinkie]

No

[Spiff]

It's quite an insult to think that our Founding Fathers were unaware of a practice that was thousands of years old, especially when you consider Jefferson's Classical scholarship. They were aware of it, yet they did not make it a Federal offense.

They never mention murder either and did not make it a federal offense. That doesn't make it any less wrong, just that it is not in the federal jurisdiction and is left to the states to enforce.

[Spiff]

It's quite an insult to think that our Founding Fathers were unaware of a practice that was thousands of years old, especially when you consider Jefferson's Classical scholarship. They were aware of it, yet they did not make it a Federal offense.

They never mention murder either and did not make it a federal offense. That doesn't make it any less wrong, just that it is not in the federal jurisdiction and is left to the states to enforce.

[My2Cents]

It depends upon the case to be made. I think that, first, the ban on partial birth abortion should be upheld. The basis for upholding the PBA ban could lead to "settled precedence" which could give support to overturning Roe.

Personally, I believe that Roe will eventually be overturned because of its reliance upon the weak and subjective concept of "fetal viability." Medical science and technolgy have rendered Blackmun's concept of "viability" obsolete; we just need a court with the smarts and the guts to recognize this, and render a decision which will eviscerate the Roe precedence. In so doing, I believe the court would strike a blow for states rights on this and many other issues, and a blow against legislating from the bench.

[Randjuke]

Yes, the decision should properly revert to the states. Roe v Wade was an overreach by the Federal court.

This is a far different question than asking if abortion should be illegal though. If Roe is overturned I expect many if not most states will continue things pretty much as they are, and we would have to deal with the implications of that.

[firewalk]

yes

[deport]

Pew Poll re: Miers Off topic per se, but the link is to a Pew Poll regarding the public opinion on the Miers nomination. Go to the bottom of the article and click on the link for some interesting subsets of the polling data.

[1stMarylandRegiment]

With all due regard for my personal opinion on the issue - and yours -

nunya bidness

Personal freedom requires personal responsibility.

On the one hand, the more we devolve onto the State responsibility for correcting negative personal outcomes (as in by making an unwanted pregnancy the responsibility of the State to correct by sanctioning abortion), the less we are required to accept personal responsibility for the cause of the negative outcomes (unprotected sex).

On the other hand, the more we devolve onto the State responsibility to correct negative collective outcomes (by making it the responsibility of the State to deny OTHER PEOPLES' access to a voluntary medical service), the less we are required to accept collective responsibility for the cause of the negative collective outcome (failure to lead others to behave as we believe they should behave).

I believe abortion is killing. I am not necessarily certain that I believe ipso facto that such killing is the responsibility of the State to regulate. We who believe abortion is killing generally believe we should be permitted to carry concealed handguns. They who believe abortion is the private right of one person to choose, would deny me the private right to carry a handgun (lest I might kill someone).

Get the State out of all of it.

Conserve Liberty.