However, I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. By soon I mean in this century. I just don't see it happening.
To get the citizens of 38 States to vote to outlaw abortion in its entirety just ain't gonna happen. Personally, I don't think it would be possible even if Jesus Christ himself appeared on national television and endorsed it.
As I said before, what we need to focus on is a reasonably attainable goal. For what it's worth, my idea of that goal is to get Roe overturned, and return to the status quo ante.
That would indeed be 'Federalism' as (I believe) our Founders intended. Let the States decide it and hope to God Almighty that the scales would fall from our fellow citizens eyes and realize that killing unborn children is just plain wrong under any circumstances.
Maybe I'm just some kind of stupid, silly dreamer. That is possible.
But, I just spent the day of Thanksgiving watching my 9 year old son play with his twin 6 year old cousins. They built Leggo toys, played with Lincoln Logs, and ran around my in laws backyard with popguns and balloons. After seeing that, I don't think there is anyone in the world who could argue that this Earth would be a better place of any one of those three hadn't been born.
I don't mean to get all sappy hear Huck, but the ultimate goal is to end this hideous practice of killing children before they even get to draw their first breath. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do think we can all agree on that much at least.
I watched my son teach his younger cousins how to jump into a leaf pile today. Me, my son, and his grandfather spent hours building that pile yesterday. Papa Jim and I got to watch them as they jumped off the stump into the pile we built yesterday. The sound of their young voices screaming to the cedar trees as they flew into that leaf pile was nothing short of magical to me.
How anyone could 'choose' not to be a part of something like that is simply beyond my ken.
I know I'm digressing a bit, but cut me some slack.
Let's focus on what we can accomplish in the short term. Let's put some more 'strict constructionists' on the bench. One or maybe two more is all it's going to take.
If we can do that, we can make some huge strides towards ending the mass infanticide that's going on in our nation today. That's not to mention the possibility of reversing some of the other horrible decisions SCOTUS has made regarding private property rights, the 2nd Amendment, the 5th Amendment, as well as those bastard children of the Bill of Rights, the 9th and 10th Amendments.
Maybe it's that last glass of port I had tonite. Maybe it's the tryptophan in the turkey kicking it. Who knows what it is, but I know that we are all going to have to pull together in order to get SCOTUS to take that first small step in the right direction so that we can all have the God given rights enumerated in our Constitution restored to each and every one of us.
Even the most defenseless among us; unborn children.
And on that note I will bid you a both a good night.
Let's try to remember that we're all on the same side.
Warm regards to both,
L
I agree on what the next step is, but not just because it's the most feasible, but also cuz it's the right step. In my opinion, if America is unwilling to amend the constitution to ban abortion, then our federal gubmint has no business outlawing it. Likewise, if the people aren't willing to codify a right to abortion, the fed gov has no business asserting it. So, yes, we are in agreement. The reason I brought it up on this thread is because for me, there is no substitute for strict construction. I don;t want an authoritarian who happens to agree with me on an issue or two. I want someone intent on limiting federal scope and limiting judicial invention. That is primary for me. GWB says he'll pick Scalias, but in his semi-coherent babblings, he's also left me unsure if he knows what that means. So I am jealously looking after it.
"To get the citizens of 38 States to vote to outlaw abortion in its entirety just ain't gonna happen." That is not the goal, for that would remove from women one of their fundamental rights, that of self defense, the right to terminate a pregnancy that threatens her life. A constitutional amendment that recognizes the unborn from conception onward as persons is the ideal, for then the same rights of the woman could be applied to the other alive human being in the issue. Such recognition would also go a long way to stopping the evil of clone-and-kill and exploitation of embryo aged beings for their body parts.