Dear AndyJackson,
I'd be delighted, as a first step, to ban third trimester, and restrict second trimester abortions.
The problem is that right now, no significant restriction may be placed at all on abortion at anytime during pregnancy, up until and including the moment of birth. Period.
We pro-lifers would be delighted to take our loaf a slice at a time, or our salami that way, too. But because of Roe, Doe, and Casey, we're reduced to fighting at the fringes of the issue. Parental notification (not consent! just notification!). Waiting periods. Informed consent.
Abortion and laws dealing seriously with it have been taken out of the political process and sacralized by seven black-robed bastards who will likely burn in Hell for all eternity. They will likely be joined by the pseudo-Catholic Kennedy and the bastard Souter, as well as the unholy horror O'Connor and the rest of the pro-aborts on the Court.
The damned Left has elevated an entirely unrestricted abortion license to the status of Primary Sacrament of the Progressive Church of What's Happening Now.
To undo this requires either a radically-changed membership on the Supreme Court, or a constitutional amendment. Or maybe a congressional end-run that most folks are kind of iffy about.
All we pro-lifers are asking for is that folks be appointed to the courts, especially the Supreme Court, who do not view Roe as inviolate. After all, that is what the demon, Specter, said about Roe, that it is inviolate, it has the status of Brown vs. Board of Education.
If we pro-lifers cannot even count on a Republican President WITH A 55-MEMBER REPUBLICAN SENATE being able to get folks on the Supreme Court who do not consider Roe inviolate, then we have wasted our time working for Republican candidates, especially presidential candidates.
If the alleged Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee acts on his views that Roe is inviolate, then we have been wasting our time.
That's the bottom line.
sitetest
Thank you for your logical posts.
I'm afraid that along with Specter, we have to deal with Chaffee, Snow, and Hutchinson.
So, it's more like 51 to 49. That's still a majority of Senators, unless Hatch joins them, as he's likely to do on cloning cases. I think we can count on the Vice President to break the tie.
Nevertheless, the problem is getting conservative judges to the Senate floor for a vote. The first step is getting them out of the Judiciary Committee. There is no reason to allow Specter to move into a responsible post when he's shown such irresponsibility. (Besides, I'm from Texas and believe Cornyn would be better.)
I'm afraid that like you, I would accept incremental gains, but that doesn't change my views on Specter or Hutchinson.