Dear Oliver Optic,
"Does Sen. Allen still support legal abortion up until brain wave activity?"
From what I understand, Sen. Allen believes that individual states have the right to decide what precisely their own abortion laws should be. Thus, he affirmed the right of South Dakota to pass an extremely pro-life law banning all abortions.
His own belief is that the ideal is to ban abortions after brain-wave activity commences.
Since even that rather limited restriction directly conflicts with the central holdings of Roe (and its companion, Doe), it is reasonable to assume (although I've never actually read or heard him say it just so) that he believes Roe (and Doe) must go.
From my perspective as an extreme pro-lifer, I can easily live with a President George Allen if he appoints Supreme Court Justices who recognize that the Constitution doesn't recognize or protect any "right" to abortion, and who will thus fully overturn Roe as being the bad hallucination of a derelict old man supported by six equally derelict morons back in 1973.
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And on that score I have more confidence in Allen than McCain or Frist and others.
But that position of Allen's will be subject to scrutiny by hundreds of thousands of pro-life voters in the months to come.