[Ditto]

1. Most states had medical boards, just as "Dr." Dean describes, deciding the ethics of individual abortion cases; and

2. State legislatures, under our federal constitution, had the power to legislate "constraints" on abortion precisely because, as "Dr." Dean says, "people do believe different things about this in different states."

You are absolutely 100% correct. To me, there are only 2 possibilities that can explain Dean's comments. They are:

1. The Democrat Party now favors overturning Roe v Wade and returning to the pre-1973 status where individual states could set their own rules on abortion.

or:

2. Howard Dean doesn't have a clue what the Roe v Wade ruling was about leading him to mouth platitudes concerning abortion that he thought would sway "ignorant Red State voters" who actually do understand what Roe was about.

I pick the second as the only realistic possibility. And I am now convinced that Dean is really stupid and totally uninformed on even basic issues. He is the best thing to happen for the Republican party in years. May he live long and prosper. ;~))

[shhrubbery!]

2. Howard Dean doesn't have a clue what the Roe v Wade ruling was about leading him to mouth platitudes concerning abortion that he thought would sway "ignorant Red State voters"

I think you're right. It's #2.