Posted on 02/16/2005 10:14:26 AM PST by NYer
WASHINGTON, February 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Friday, the US Supreme Court is currently docketed to have an internal, private discussion conference on how to handle a petition to reverse Roe v. Wade. Operation Outcry, the group which launched the petition, is comprised of Norma McCorvey, the former Roe of Roe v. Wade and Sandra Cano, the former Doe of Doe v. Bolton, and the staff of The Justice Foundation, the attorneys representing both of them and the post-abortive witnesses of Operation Outcry: Silent No More.
On January 14, the petition to reverse Roe v. Wade was filed with the United States Supreme Court. It was received by the United States Supreme Court on January 19. On January 17, Martin Luther King’s birthday, Norma McCorvey and Allan Parker appeared on Hannity & Colmes to announce the filing. On January 18, a press conference with Norma, Sandra, and the ladies of Operation Outcry: Silent No More, and the lawyers, was held on the steps of the United States Supreme Court.
Operation Outcry has called on pro-lifers to pray for a positive outcome from the court’s deliberations.
The petition to reverse Roe has been set for a Supreme Court discussion conference on February 18 with results to be public on February 22.
For more information on the case see:
http://www.operationoutcry.org
it's about time.
Guess what will happen if Roe v Wade is overturned....
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
Roe v Wade make abortion a FEDERAL issue and took power away from the states to decide.
Bump.
It ain't gonna happen. This court won't do it. This is a case of not having enough patience.
I didn't know if you were on NYer's ping list.
So Right to Life Ping.
As a Supreme Court watcher, I'll be extremely surprised if they reverse it.
How ironic ... this is the same day Michael Schiavo plans to pull the feeding tube on his wife.
Has anything like this EVER happened, that is, where the original plaintiffs on a Supreme Court case fervently work to overturn their original cases?
-- Joe
This will not be a Profile in Courage.
Yes, and how long will it take to get that passed.
People think abortion was Banned pre RvWade
It wasn't. All Roe V Wade did was make every state have to allow abortion.
If the USSC had the guts to overturn (whcih they don't) abortion would then be up to the states. Result, some states would have abortion, some would not and over the years Americans will move to these places accordingly. The Red states will get more red, the blue states will get more blue. Of course between abortion and AIDS, the blue states will slowly die off over the next few decades.
SCOTUS is controlled by leftists with nothing but contempt for American Values. They will just uphold Roe v. Wade and spit in our face.
I disagree Laura. Most states will impose restrictions. Yours and mine may not, but most reasonable states will. I read not too long ago that abortion will be "more or less" illegal in all but nine states. That is a huge improvement in the direction of justice.
For myself, living in a red state with three or four blue counties making it a blue state by population, these a$$h0les don't deserve such a beautiful place and I'll stay and fight, armed if necessary. Enough is enough...
I have no problem with that. We are a Rebublic of Rebublics. The people of the individual states should decide, through their legislatures, what laws they will live under. My own state of Massachusetts would most likely keep abortion legal. I wouldn't like it and if I were a legislator, I would vote against it. But if a majority of the representatives of the people of my state choose to make such a law, I would accept it and move on, or work to elect more people with my point of view.
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