\We need to ask these Nominee's how they view the Constitution and how much importance do they put on the Founding Fathers original intent, not these hot button Liberal issues. Roe-v-Wade will die of a thousand cuts, not a single decision handed down from the SCOTUS
Very well stated but some folks on here cannot get it through their brains that getting rid of Roe V. Wade is being done in increments and will never happen in one ruling. They cannot see the forest for the trees IMHO!
Slavery was established law too, and it was the law of the land longer than Roe V Wade. Did that make it right? Just because a law is "established" doesn't make it right OR legal. The SCOTUS usurped it's responsibity in Roe V Wade by MAKING law rather than interpreting the law. The Constitution does not even mention abortion or deal with the matter of when life begins or ends, so how can the SCOTUS interpret what wasn't mentioned in the first place. It's called "Acitivisn", making law which is ursurping that power given ONLY to the U.S. Congress.
I agree.
Too many "conservatives" base their whole political outlook on overturning Roe vs Wade. Just plain ain't gonna happen!
As much as I hate abortion, I have to say that I don't EVER see it being overturned; and at this stage of the game, there are things far more important to the future of our Nation to be considered.
"Roe-v-Wade is established law and it will not be re-argued."
It almost was overruled in 1992:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/04/scotus.blackmun.papers
As lawyers and court watchers have long suspected, the Supreme Court was ready to effectively overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion in 1992, but Justice Anthony M. Kennedy got cold feet, and the vote went the other way.
Internal notes in the papers of late Justice Harry A. Blackmun reveal the secretive dealings that led to the court's ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey that year.
Blackmun's extensive records from 24 years on the court were opened Thursday.
Details of the archives were first reported by National Public Radio, which got advance access.
Blackmun's notes show that Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist led a five-justice majority to overrule Roe. Four other justices voting with Rehnquist were Byron White, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Kennedy. Rehnquist himself was to write the majority opinion.
I agree. I am pro life but it's been very clear to me for a while that the pro life leadership is still stuck fighting the 1973 battle they lost. They have been stunted and stymied since then.
The leadership needs to be replaced.
If O'Connor, Ginsberg and Rehnquist are replaced with originalists, it will die a quick death and be overturned as many cases are. The court will find its solace when the "sky is falling" left realizes that repealing Roe won't have much effect on a woman's ability to have an abortion in most states.
The "thousand cuts" approach will be germaine to the subsequent approach to ban abortion in the states. Most will only limit it. Utah may be the only state to ban it entirely. Some state supreme courts may even find a right to abortion in state consitutions.
The last time I checked, federal judicial officers do not take an oath to support "established law."
"Roe-v-Wade is established law and it will not be re-argued."
You mean like the issue of slavery and the prohibition Volstead Act were never re-argued? Not good to ban booze, but OK to continue murdering babies?
I think you're probably right.