[jude24]

He enjoys a Zero percent rating from the National Abortion Rights Action League.

Unfortunately, Abortion is a non-issue. Even if we reconstituted the Supreme Court entirely with Alito and Roberts clones, the Supreme Court holds starae decisis so tightly that they will not overrule Roe v. Wade. Abortion will be legal as long as the Supreme Court subscribes to that philosophy.

The fight, therefore, must be ensuring that abortion is rare. A mixture of regulation and social pressures can accomplish what the Supreme Court never will.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Even if we reconstituted the Supreme Court entirely with Alito and Roberts clones, the Supreme Court holds starae decisis so tightly that they will not overrule Roe v. Wade.

I think that's true of Roberts, but not Alito. I believe I recall remarks from Alito to exactly that effect -- regarding Scott and Plessy, for example.

[Lexinom]

Actually, Congress has the authority to end legal abortion without input from the SCOTUS, which is why Hunter introduced his legilation in 2003 - and reintroduced it a few days ago.

The approach to this issue needs to be balanced, both top-down (Govt. incl. SCOTUS, Congress, the new effort in SD) and bottom-up (crisis pregnancy center support, abstinence education, culture-of-life, and just show the darned procedure, already!). So I half-agree with you.