[JeffAtlanta]

Why not just overturn Roe and return the question to the people? What are you afraid of? That the people might actually accept, in fact, demand significant restrictions on abortion?

No, what scares me is that you guys are certain to fail and the republican party and the conservative movement will be destroyed in the process. I, along with most people, have more things to worry about than just abortion.

BTW, the amendment could just say "The federal government is prohibited from legislating the issue of abortion - this power is reserved for the states." What's so hard about that?

[sitetest]

Dear JeffAtlanta,

In principle, I don't have a fundamental constitutional objection to the federal Congress legislating in the arena of abortion, so I don't like your amendment. ;-)

Perhaps an amendment might read, "The federal and state courts have no jurisdiction over the question of the legality of abortion, or bans thereof."

It's not very lawyerly, but you get the idea. After all, I'm not a lawyer. ;-)

But the bottom line is, politically, if folks are going to go after some sort of pro-life amendment, you're not going to get a significant portion of us "nutjobs" on board for anything less than a ban.

Why go through all the trouble of a constitutional amendment just so we can then hash it all out in the legislatures? If we have to go that route, let's get the whole nine yards.

We could use an act of Congress to take it away from the courts. If the Republican Congress had any significant amount of backbone.


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