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To: davidosborne

Doesn't seem likely with THIS court. SDO thinks we should factor international law in her decisions.


3 posted on 01/17/2005 12:56:18 PM PST by drc43 (We have 4 years left to get it right)
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To: drc43

The text of Roe v. Wade explicitly relies on scientific knowledge of the beginning and sustainment of life as was known THEN (in the view of the court). IOW, the justics specifically said they were basing their opinion on what they knew from "science" at that point in time.

Well, we know (i.e., can show) a lot more from "science" now. If the court wants to base its opinion on "science," as it did in Roe v. Wade, then it has an obligation to review, and change its opinion when "science" changes.

It's not as unlikely as it seems. The Court once ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional based on society's "evolving" standards of "justice." Several years later, after it became clear that some States were going to keep legislating until they established a death penalty, the Court discovered that society's standards had "evolved" again, and they re-found the death penalty constitutional.

So wilder things have happened. In any case, it's worth praying about.


103 posted on 01/17/2005 6:12:17 PM PST by wouldntbprudent ("Tell the truth. The Pajama People are watching you.")
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To: drc43
SDO thinks we should factor international law in her decisions.

Fine. I think SDO should open her eyes to the fact that the United States is only one of six nations in the world where abortion on demand up to viability is legal.

If she wants to consider foreign law while considering what should be the law of the land here...she should open her eyes.

116 posted on 01/17/2005 7:33:44 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (All I ask from livin' is to have no chains on me. All I ask from dyin' is to go naturally.)
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