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To: hushpad
Good! Guess Roe V Wade can now be overturned, thrown-out, whatever!

Congress did not involve itself in the individual case of Roe v Wade. That was decided by the courts -- ultimately the U.S. Supreme Court. In the 30+ years since, Congress still has not enacted a law to challenge the decision or overturn Roe v. Wade legislatively. Congress could, for example, by generating a Constitutional amendment to ban abortion and then sending it out to the states for ratification. Congress has not done that because it knows such an amendment would never be ratified.

134 posted on 03/21/2005 12:58:15 PM PST by Wolfstar (If you can lead, do it. If you can't, follow. If you can't do either, become a Democrat.)
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To: Wolfstar
Congress has not done that because it knows such an amendment would never be ratified.

Wow! What a sorry state lawmakers have brought us to.
238 posted on 03/21/2005 1:32:38 PM PST by hushpad (The Slippery Slope? The Judiciary passed it a few miles back.)
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