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To: George W. Bush
Do you suppose LtdGovt will finally believe he's pro-choice when he starts parading around wearing his official NARAL 'Champion Of Choice' medallion that he accepted at one of their death rallies?

But I know he's pro-choice. The question is whether he believes that abortion is a constitutional right. I don't think he does.
425 posted on 02/23/2007 5:36:41 AM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: LtdGovt
But I know he's pro-choice. The question is whether he believes that abortion is a constitutional right. I don't think he does.

If he is pro-choice, then he is a de facto supporter of Roe since it is the flawed legal instrument by which some rather ignorant justices inflicted their uninformed views on the country decades ago. We're not talking about a constitutional amendment. We're not talking about a Court decision of substance and merit. It's a naked attempt to justify, entirely without legal argument, the practice of infanticide. But it is not a respectable decision and probably has even less merit than, say, Kelo.

Obviously, The Rudy agrees with the results of Roe even if he might, due to his association with real constitutional lawyers like Ted Olson, dispute the legal particulars of Roe. Personally, I see little of any real distinction in his record as a lawyer. I think he is a mediocre lawyer turned prosecutor turned politician, a group that should never be allowed higher office. Their record as a group runs from mediocre to just plain bad.

So whether Rudy might or might not consider Roe good constitutional law, it is a distinction without any significance either in the law or in the practice of infanticide. Well, unless you are somehow suggesting that The Rudy wants to strike down Roe and let the Congress or the states enact the exact same results as the results of popular whim. Admittedly, he might do that because he is an unprincipled autocrat, dangerous to the Constitution in the same way that LBJ and FDR were.
433 posted on 02/23/2007 7:09:04 AM PST by George W. Bush
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