If Roe Goes Down, So Does GOP (Pass it to the left when through taking hit)

RealClearPolitics ^ | July 21, 2005 | By Froma Harrop

[dfwgator]

In my personal experience, all libs assume that the large majority agrees with them on everything

Just like the Commies thought they had the "dictate of the masses."

[daku]

put the abortion question on a national ballot as a referendum

I am tired of knowing what the majority of Americans think without having the proof

[mike182d]

If Roe were overturned, I'm betting nearly every state (except maybe Utah) would pass laws allowing it. And some like Mass. and NY would allow it all the way up to the moment of birth. And, of course, no parental notification.

I hope you were being sarcastic. The moment Roe was overturned, there wouldn't be a need to "vote" in every state as there are already laws on the books in several states already out-lawing it. As soon as Roe is overturned, abortion would be illegal in those state immediately. Furthermore, the push for Parental Notification laws was quite successful, especially here in the State of Florida. The people want restrictions and the Government is denying them.

[Commander Salamander]

"What can you expect from someone named Froma Harrop?"

Looks like her name was thrown in a sharware "name generator" application. LOL

[DesignerChick]

This woman is the classic example of of what I hate about abortion apologists. The immediate acceptance that abortion is necessary today - is the same idea that slavery was necessary 200 years ago.

Abortion is not about helping women- so stop pretending it is. Abortion is about specifically NOT helping women, making a business profit, and running away.

Its also about being irresponsible. No one spontaneously wakes up pregnant....stop the excuses and take real responsibility for your reproductive organs. Its an actual act, not a slogan.

Stop hiding behind the notion that abortion is some sort of soothing relief (doesn't hurt, blah blah) for 'unwanted' pregnancies.

Stop hiding behind the claim that rape and incest validate murder. It is obscene to suggest the most compassionate thing to offer that rape victim is convincing her "its not really a life" and death for her child.

Stop being dishonest.
"No one knows when life begins...thats a question for science and philosophers not the courts" is the most disingenuous claim I ever heard. We certainly have an idea of when life exists, if the courts KNOW it doesn't exist in the womb.


Until the people in this country are FORCED to seriously take the pregnant womans needs into consideration when setting up schools and businesses this sick mindset will continue.

It is pathetic and sad that this comfortable middle class woman would 'give' her 16 year old daughter an abortion rather than welcome her own grandchild into the world.

[operative american pie]

Hey all you righties you got through to me on the whole abortion thing. IF people keep talking about their outrage about abortion others will listen. Especially if you say it hurts women more because it takes the most loving creature a woman can have away from her. The more people keep talking about it, the more people will listen.

[DesignerChick]

Amen to all that.

[steve-b]

if they don't use it to try to end abortion, then what good is the power that they currently possess right now?

They can, and should, use it for more important things, such as getting my taxes down to a reasonable level.

[theDentist]

NO, I wasn't being sarcastic at all. As I do not know state-by-state the laws regarding abortion, the hue and cry for the "oppressed" in those states you mention would bring about furious lawsuits to legalize it.

[sonofagun]

"I wouldn't want to be a Republican politician the day that suburban mothers learn there's no legal way to end their 16-year-old daughter's unwanted pregnancy. "

Whose choice are they trying to protect, anyway?

[Tax-chick]

Maybe they randomly picked out 11 Scrabble tiles and made a "name" from them. No Z's or Q's, at least.

[LucyJo]

"Why should Republicans care about making abortions harder and harder to obtain?"

Pretty much sums up Froma's one sided understanding of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", huh?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Many post-Roe restrictions on abortion are outrageous. The bar on federal funding for abortions, which hurts mostly poor women, is a prime example.

PP is rich. It has the $$. Let it step up and provide the funding if it thinks babycide is so peachy keen.

[steve-b]

I guess that the Dems will be delighted if Roe is reversed.

Indeed they will (just as Reps were delighted when the gay-marriage flap kicked up).

[Tax-chick]

I wonder how many abortions she's had.

[Dad was my hero]

I wouldn't want to be a Republican politician the day that suburban mothers learn there's no legal way to end their 16-year-old daughter's unwanted pregnancy.

Oh the horrors, the thought that their 16 y.o. daughter will now have to carry the baby to term and put it up for adoption. How could they ruin my daughter's life like that? What an idiot!

[John Lenin]

The truth is if Roe goes down the RATS lose a major source of funding.

[HiTech RedNeck]

A wild guess: she's probably been on the pill since age 13, so none herself. However she's probably assisted at abortuaries.

[steve-b]

I think the biggest reaction will be when the voters find out that overruling Roe will not make abortion illegal, that they've been lied to by you for more than thirty years.

At this point, the hard-core faction starts demanding an absolute across-the-board ban, which in most parts of the country would be a politically suicidal position (if reversal of Roe v Wade made it an actual live issue rather than red-meat rhetoric).

This is why Bush would nominate Noam Chomsky before he would nominate someone he really expected to cast the deciding vote for such a reversal.

[hlmencken3]

...Americans at all income levels oppose abortion, but the higher you go, the fewer opponents there are. This is treacherous terrain for Republicans...

This statement proves that this unknown author believes Republicans depend on 'the wealthy' for their support, something that is false when compared with Democrats, who do depend on 'the wealthy'.