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Contrary to popular belief (and despite what conservative legal experts like Mark Levin have been saying for years), the Roe decision was not the result of some kind of usurpation of the legislative authority of Congress on the part of the Supreme Court. The truth is that in 1973 Congress was perfectly content to let a bunch of unelected judges carry the ball on this issue --

I agree with that, and I also agree that this is nothing new. Roe was no different than Dred Scott. In the 1850s, Congress was at loggerheads on how to treat the issues surrounding slavery so the Court simply made their decision for them -- a decision that only hastened the national tragedy. The same was true over a century later with Roe.

In a world where elected leaders respected the Constitution congressmen of both sides of the slavery and abortion issues would have joined together and condemned the court for meddling in the political process. Instead, the winners gloat and the losers whine, but neither question why the court stepped into the political realm in the first place.

The fault is with Congress, and ultimately with the people who elect them.