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To: Arthur McGowan
Any President from Nixon forward has had the right and duty to send troops into the states to shut down abortion clinics.

Your position IS extreme. It gives the president, in his sole judgment, the right and duty to override both the Supreme Court and Congress as to what is constitutional.

Any President who tried this would promptly have had such an operation defunded by Congress, followed in due order by his impeachment and removal from office. As well it should. The President is not a dictator.

Alternatively, every President since Nixon SHOULD have threatened every state that legalized abortion with expulsion from the Union.

Which article of the Constitution gives the President any such power?

Up to Roe, abortion regulation had always been a state matter, with the feds not involved. IMO, and I suspect that of most around here, that is where it belongs. Any federal government that can enforce uniform anti-abortion laws in a country so divided on the issue is one that is much too powerful.

10 posted on 01/13/2009 2:39:35 AM PST by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: Sherman Logan

But Roe presumed to tell the states they cannot legislate against abortion, on the grounds that the fetus is not a person within the meaning of the 14th amendment.

The President has as much right to assert the personhood of the fetus as the Court has to deny it.

Same with Congress.

And however Congress might react is a separate issue from whether the President would have been acting rightly.


11 posted on 01/13/2009 2:49:25 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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