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To: TBP
Once again, the Republican Party's actions do not match their rhetoric. They do nothing to support or advance the pro-life cause, yet they demand the support of pro-life voters.

Let me propose a new acronym: PLINO (Pro-Life In Name Only). A "pro-life" Senator or Representative who does not favor the use of Article 3 of the Constitution to remove abortion from the purview of the Supreme Court is a PLINO. Wringing his hands and pretending that nothing can be done until (at some indeterminate point) the makeup of the Court is changed (and PLINOs often vote for pro-abortion Justices BTW) may make good political cover (his goal), but it essentially makes his claim to be "pro-life" a lie, in the same manner as if I were to claim to be "anti-rape" but then looked on and did nothing while a woman was being attacked.

And, at the State level, open defiance of the Supreme Court must be left in the playbook. One individual state won't be enough, but imagine if an entire swatch of the country, from North Dakota to Texas, decided to legislate against abortion anyway and simply told the Fed gubmint to go to h*ll. Any State "pro-life" legislator who insists on absolute fealty to the Supreme Court (as though it were God) is also a PLINO.

17 posted on 01/24/2005 10:37:23 AM PST by VinceJS
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To: VinceJS
A "pro-life" Senator or Representative who does not favor the use of Article 3 of the Constitution to remove abortion from the purview of the Supreme Court is a PLINO.

Only if your definition of "pro-life" includes being blind to reality.

There is no way, 1.) you can remove anything from the Supreme Court's purview Constitutionally (no matter what the crackpot theories of some might say, and 2.) politically, that will not happen now. Politics is the art of the possible, not a wish list you can send to Santa Claus.

21 posted on 01/24/2005 1:07:56 PM PST by jude24 ("To go against conscience is neither right nor safe." - Martin Luther)
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