[Aquinasfan]

The difference is that legislating from the bench got us Abortion on demand. the people calling for judges that would rule "morally" is exactly what started this mess in the first place. the lefties thought it was "moral" to kill the unborn if it inconvienenced the Mother.

The difference is that we're right and they're wrong. Abortion is intrinsically evil. All laws that uphold abortion are intrinsically evil and therefore null.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"The difference is that we're right and they're wrong."

That's funny, that's exactly what THEY say.

So we'll just play that game forever.

[marty60]

Everyone one knows there is no constitutional right to an abortion. Our problem has been we can't get constructionist judges on the bench. the point is that gonzales is such a judge. Why blame him for the suit is flawed from the beginning. That is legislating from the bench. Exactly what we don't want.

[Scholastic]

Thanks for this post. I had a sad feeling that the pro-life establishment, bought and paid for by the GOP, would even stoop to defending and applauding Gonzales. At times I even thought it would be impossible for even them, but never discount the beltway harlots. There is no original-intent defense for what he did in Texas. The major people who were invloved in creating the Texas parental notice law have condemed him for his decision. It was in the courts perview to apply the judicial bypass, and he chose to turn it into a tunnel that you could fit a mac-truck through. You cant say he was "just following orders," or "interpriting the law". Even if the judical bypass provision was clear in favor of the abortion, NATRUAL LAW prohibits any government, any official or jurist tasked with enforcing and protecting the common good from taking the life of another, or allowing a murder to happen under cover of law. That is NOT judicial activism, its self-evident Natural Law, embraced by our founders. I wonder if the state of Texas and the US Congress were to repeal the 13th amendment and allow for slavery again, if many of these leaders would claim that a judge who would then sends a person back into slavery was just "following orders/the law" and upholding the slaveowners right to choose. If Bush appointed him, Im sure they would, so I dont even want to think about it further.

Gonzales, or anyone else who allows or favors any abortion under cover of law, has no place in government or on any court, even if he is "only" in charge of the Justice Department, which upholds the legal common good. People are policy.

Background info:

http://www.rnclife.org/reports/2000/mar00/mar00.html

http://www.rnclife.org/reports/2002/Oct02/oct02.shtml