Well either way it will be very interesting to see how they rule next year on Partial Birth Abortion. In Stenberg you had 3 for undermining Casey (Renquist, Scalia, and Thomas) and one to uphold the PBA ban while uphold Casey (Kennedy) for a total of 4 votes. It will be interesting to see if Roberts joins his mentor, if so we are almost up to overturning Casey, just one away. And once the PBA is upheld I suspect the state legislatures start going to town on other abortion restrictions.
Dear dubyaismypresident,
Yes, and if Mr. Roberts turns out to be on the side of the Constitution, we might get back to just after post-Casey. And if Ginsburg or Stevens retires well before the 2008 election, and we get a human being as their replacement, then we could see Roe ultimately overturned in a decade, or even a bit less.
Nonetheless, we can only get to the starting point that is a post-Roe world by getting rid of Roe. Until then, we're pretty much frozen in place, in terms of taking more than symbolic action to eradicate abortion.
sitetest
It will be very interesting indeed. Will Roberts join his mentor or Kennedy? If he joins Kennedy next June there's going to be alot of angry conservatives and this could have a huge effect on turnout for Republicans in the 2006 mid-terms... It's going to be a very interesting next 10 months...