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To: governsleastgovernsbest
That ruling says nothing about Alito's views on the issue of abortion. One could be the world's biggest donor to Planned Parenthood and still find as a matter of law that the state statute was not unconstitutional.

I don't see what your point is. Maybe Alito is privately pro-choice (as Kennedy is pro-life) but no one cares about that. It's his legal opinion that counts, and Alito's dissent certainly was anti-abortion in that it found certain prohibitions on it acceptable. Certain prohibitions, I might add, which are going to be a PR nightmare (a wife must notify her husband beforehand).

187 posted on 10/31/2005 3:53:59 AM PST by SpringheelJack
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To: SpringheelJack

My point is that you cannot infer anything about Alito's personal views on abortion from his decision in the case. Nor was his decision "anti-abortion," as CNN described it. It simply was a finding that the husband-notification statute was not unconstitutional.

There could be another case in which Alito would have ruled on the other side. Would that make him "pro-abortion"?


200 posted on 10/31/2005 3:57:03 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (read my posts on Today show bias at www.newsbusters.org)
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