[Twodees]

There's no way that this nonsense is "clearly" constitutional. Just because the Supremes say it's in keeping with the Constitution doesn't make it so. Remember that it was a Supreme Court decision which "discovered" that a person's right to privacy somehow makes that person exempt from prosecution for murder for aborting her unborn child.

[MindBender26]

Right now, like or hate it, this act, as well abortion are conctitutional. If we insist on our own interpretation of the Constitution, we abandon one of our strongest points, the need to elect those who would ammend the Constitution to make these act illegal.

If we insist on our own result-less read on the COnstitution, all we do is pi** in the wind. If we accept the legality, (but moral unaceptability) of the current read, then maybe enough people get angry enough to elect the right people to change it.

[tpaine]

There's no way that this nonsense is "clearly" constitutional. Just because the Supremes say it's in keeping with the Constitution doesn't make it so. Remember that it was a Supreme Court decision which "discovered" that a person's right to privacy somehow makes that person exempt from prosecution for murder for aborting her unborn child.

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Your 'privacy' comment is a common misconception.

The USSC said that states can not ban abortion as a criminal offense until the child is viable, -- that it cannot be prohibited as a type of murder, or prosecuted as such without due process.

Prosecute each individual case of abortion in court, in front of a jury, as murder, and I doubt the USSC would object, or take an appeal.

A state can not deprive a pregnant woman of her life, liberty, or property, -- it cannot be seperated [ prohibited] from her, - without due process. See the 14th.

[MindBender26]

Prosecute each individual case of abortion in court, in front of a jury, as murder, and I doubt the USSC would object, or take an appeal.

Case would never get to Supremes. Any True Bill so charging would be estopped and struck by state courts or federal district courts on Defendant's emergency motion in matter of moments. Courts do not like prosecutors "playing games" and this would be clearly seen as such.

In addition, any such prosecutorial action would open gmvt to "abuse of prosecution" civil action immediately.

Reality is that, like it or not, abortion is legal. We can pee into wind all day saying it is not, but until we elect people to change law, all we are doing is deluding ourselves.