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To: xjcsa

Well thinking the matter should be left to the states is in fact the view of those who want Roe v. Wade overturned. If Roe is overturned, then the states control.

As a matter of Law right now, abortion is a woman’s choice.


44 posted on 03/11/2009 9:38:19 PM PDT by JLS
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To: JLS
As a matter of Law right now, abortion is a woman’s choice.

Spin it all you want, that's not what Steele was saying. Not that it's an easy task to decipher what he *was* saying, incoherent as it was.

48 posted on 03/11/2009 9:45:36 PM PDT by xjcsa (Currently shouting "I told you so" about Michael Steele on my profile page.)
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To: JLS; calex59
Well thinking the matter should be left to the states is in fact the view of those who want Roe v. Wade overturned. If Roe is overturned, then the states control.

There is almost no chance SCOTUS would "overturn" Roe v. Wade in the way some here believe. SCOTUS will certainly not state that their is no "right to privacy", which Roe was based on, because privacy is certainly a right retained by "the people". If Roe is overturned it will most likely be because SCOTUS rules that the unenumerated right to privacy is trumped by the enumerated right to life.

If there is indeed a "right to life" it is surely a fundamental right and therefore protected by the Constitution. I see no circumstance that SCOTUS would say that the fundamental right to life exists but it is not protected by the Constitution and is therefore left to the vagaries of the states. No way.

67 posted on 03/11/2009 10:20:26 PM PDT by Prokopton
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