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Dear Cold Heat,

"'And the Supreme Court has held to this.'

"The old court did.

"We don't know what the new one will look like, and that is basically what we are discussing here and now."

Cold Heat, have you been paying attention?

Roe v. Wade was promulgated by the fat black-robed asses in 1973.

We have had 31 years of Roe jurisprudence.

The Supreme Court, over that time, permitted not a single real restriction to abortion on demand, up to and including four-fifths infanticide at term.

That is the structure of Roe. Read what these folks write. They rule as they do because any other ruling undermines fatally Roe itself. That is what they say. That is why they overturned Nebraska's PBA ban.

Justice O'Connor has written repeatedly, if a law has the effect of constructively denying a woman an abortion - any abortion, for any reason, at any time, the law does not pass muster with Roe.

Your previous comments lead me to believe that you aren't really very aware of what's happened on this issue. Your belief that Justices Thomas and Scalia would not vote to overturn Roe actually are in contradiction with what's in the public record.

The decision of Roe v. Wade, despite what liberals and libertines think, is not Holy Writ. It's just a really clunky, really badly-argued and reasoned decision of the Supreme Court. It has no more eternal value than Dred Scott of Plessy vs. Ferguson.

The left holds to it because without it, they know that folks will accept, nay, demand significant restrictions on abortions. In many states, abortion will only be legal in cases of rape, incest, and life of the mother. Some states will continue with a wide abortion license, although I wouldn't be surprised to see nearly all states significantly curtail access to late-term abortions.

Bottom line, the only thing preventing the American people from restricting abortion significantly in the United States is Roe.

Roe's gotta go.

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