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To: MikeinIraq

"So you think the government should have a ruling on abortion?

You think the Supreme Court should have EVER made a ruling on the case?"



Those are two very different questions. The *government* should definitely "rule" on abortion, by which I mean that the legislature should prohibit abortion just as it prohibits murder (with an exception for the life of the mother, just as self-defense is an exception to murder laws). As for the U.S. Supreme Court, it should have ruled in 1973 that there is no constitutional right to abortion, and thus the states should be allowed to restrict it or ban it as they see fit.

But if some states decided to make wife-killing legal (as it is de facto in parts of India), I would lobby for a federal law or, if necessary, a federal constitutional amendment making murder illegal. And when Roe v. Wade is overturned I will lobby for federal legislation (under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment) banning abortion and a federal constitutional amendment protecting innocent human life from the moment of conception.


114 posted on 02/01/2006 6:58:35 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/)
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To: AuH2ORepublican
And when Roe v. Wade is overturned I will lobby for federal legislation (under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment) banning abortion and a federal constitutional amendment protecting innocent human life from the moment of conception.

When that day does come (and it will here sooner than later) I won't. Just because they have been horribly and grotesquely wrong for the last 33 years doesn't mean that going the exact opposite way in the Federal arena will be RIGHT. It should have stayed with the states when they ruled on it and when they overturn it, it should STAY with that states.
115 posted on 02/01/2006 8:11:38 AM PST by MikefromOhio (")
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