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To: JCEccles
He certainly doesn't openly dispute the legitimacy of Roe v. Wade. He seems to be in favor of allowing some state discretion in the matter.

I'm not a Fredhead (yet), but if Roe v Wade is overturned then abortion BECOMES a state matter. Overturning Roe v Wade will not make abortion illegal...it will make it a state matter rather than a federal matter.

Divide and conquer.

144 posted on 06/18/2007 6:20:33 AM PDT by kidd
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To: kidd
Divide and conquer.

The problem is, it is pro-lifers who are being divided and conquered with the fallacy that States have a right under our Constitution to kill babies.

First of all, this argument removes the entire moral and intellectual argument against overturning Roe to begin with. If a baby is not a person, Roe stands.

Secondly, even if you did manage to overturn Roe, even without the benefit of the only moral and intellectual arguments against it that exist, and pushed it through by purely political means, you will have also removed the only moral, intellectual and constitutional arguments that are possible to overturn it at the state level.

Those who are making this argument, whether they will admit it or not, are accomplishing NOTHING but the continuation of the status quo.

You know the old definition for insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time.

It's past time for pro-life folks to argue this from the proper basis, and to reject politicians who propagate fallacies.

152 posted on 06/18/2007 7:40:32 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("You will have your bipartisanship." - Fred Thompson, May 4, 2007)
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