Justice Scalia: Abortion Issue Not Constitutional

NewsMax ^ | 10/21/06 | AP

[wagglebee]

How about "murder during childbirth"?

[Tax-chick]

I don't know. You can't tell from "polls." As I always say, the only poll that counts is the one taking on election day at your designated precinct.

We might be surprised by even some of the "Blue States."

It seems clear that the majority of voters want limits to "abortion on demand," or as I say, "Kill any baby, any time, any reason." It's a start.

[OESY]

Very well said.

[Tax-chick]

Thanks!

[slowhand520]

There already is. It's called the 10th Amendment

[wagglebee]

California might go either way. I think New York, Mass., Conn, RI and DC will keep abortion no matter what.

[John 6.66=Mark of the Beast?]

So then the Supreme Court needs to overturn laws against personal use of drugs, like weed, lsd, speed, and turn it over to the individual states.

[wagglebee]

I guess you didn't get the memo. The 1st Amendment has been reworded to say that religion should not exist in public, and the rest of the amendment is only extended to liberals. Amendments 2, 9 and 10 no longer exist.

[wagglebee]

I would think that for the most part these are federal issues because of interstate commerce.

[Tax-chick]

We'd have to see - and of course it could be re-voted any time, by changing the state legislators. That's how our system is supposed to work.

It's not ideal - killing innocent people shouldn't be negotiable by the voters - but it would be a big improvement on the status quo.

[wagglebee]

Anything would be an improvement.

[rzeznikj at stout]

LOL...

Yes, Yes I am...8^)

[HoosierHawk]

LOL. I found that out the hard way. I spent 12 hours at an installation in Lufkin one hot summer day. At the hotel desk I asked where I could get a nice, cold beer.

You can imagine the look on my face when they told me I was out of luck.

[MarkL]

I've come to realize that there are at least 2 sorts of "conservatives." One sort looks at the Constitution as a strict constructionalist, and goes from there... Judicial activism is anethema to them. The other sort is a morality warrior, a busybody who feels the need to run the lives of other people. They support judicial activism every bit as much as do the leftists, but their agenda is different.

The question will become just what sort of conservative will drive the movement?

Mark

[John 6.66=Mark of the Beast?]

How is it that if I grow for my own use? The getaround of laws protecting interstate commerce was used in the RICO act for everything from bootlegging of liquor to protesting of abortion clinics. The federal government should stay out of the states business and be limited to what it was originally put together for and that was to protect the borders and collect tariffs not to tax anything that moves, and turn a blind eye to the borders seeing them as potential votes.

[WalterSkinner]

..just one more justice, just one more...

[Paloma_55]

[Antoninus]

Judicial activism is anethema to them. The other sort is a morality warrior, a busybody who feels the need to run the lives of other people. They support judicial activism every bit as much as do the leftists, but their agenda is different.

I support conservative judicial activism up to the point where liberal activists took us off the rails in the 1960s. When we reach status quo ante, then I'm all for the "hands off" approach. To start with, the SCOTUS needs to set down the following clearly:

-> No constitutional right to abortion.

-> Pornography, lap dances, snuff films, and other grossly obscene forms of expression are NOT protected under the 1st Amendment.

-> No constitutional right to any deviant sex act.

If they can start to get some of this right, I may begin to have hope for the Republic.

[eleni121]

Scalia makes eminent sense...usually.

But courts do have a role to play in fundamental life and death matters. Abortion is one such area of inquiry - the life of a human being. Courts do have the obligation to protect human beings from butchers. And Courts do have a role to play in protecting the old and infirm from unscrupulous thanatophiles.

[montag813]

"The court could have said, 'No, thank you.' The court have said, you know, 'There is nothing in the Constitution on the abortion issue for either side,'

Scalia makes so much sense every time he opens his mouth, he should be the most admired man in America.