"Now everybody concedes that all this will take a few years."
If the Supreme Court liberals are smart, they will take this case on now, before Bush has another opportunity to change the Court.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
I also happen to agree with him 100% on this.
There's another one.
I can't figure this...even though it is the right thing to do and would increase the number of potential taxpayers...the pro-death crowd is upset, ya think they may be hooked up with Islam?
South Dakota only has 1 abortion clinic anyway. But this will be interesting to watch.
Scalia made some interesting remarks recently on abortion before a think tank. The topic was the use and relevancy of foreign law in interpreting and applying the Constitution. He said that he would believe the sincerety of those who do when they start using foreign law on abortion cases. The US is in the distinct minority when it comes to allowing abortion on demand with no restrictions. Even the UK, Italy, and many other Western countries have restrictions. The US is among the 50+ countries that don't have any.
Ping for later.
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Thus you could have a hippy-dippy San Freakcisco and a very conservative SD or VA, and people would move according to where they wanted to be.
The over-reaching, one-size-fits-all Federal "solutions" that we see imposed by the SCOTUS and Congress have largely taken away this competition.
True. California, New York, Massachusetts et al will never, ever, outlaw abortion.
Women in those states (or women who travel to them) will continue to be able to kill an unborn child for any reason, at any stage of pregnancy, as they do now legally.
Yet I heard a NARAL witch on the radio yesterday claim that "If South Dakota can outlaw abortion, then all the states will."
At least the Left is having to come up with new lies to replace the old.
What's the deal with an injunction? Anyone know the likely scenario?
The elites at National Review ought to get in touch with their mentor. Seems he's not in tune with their latest "wisdom" on the front page.
For my part I don't care how tthis plays out at the Supremes in the short term. What I care about is that legislatures are forcing pressure on the Courts, and attempting to take back their Constitutional roles. As is proper.
Eventually R v W is going to fall, the only question is how many more times the Supremes will stand as a roadblock before accepting that reality...and will the legislatures and Governor eventually just tell the Court to try to enforce R v W....with their non-existant standing army.