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To: silverleaf
The USSC is not going to overturn Roe vs Wade

I'm agnostic on that question. Leave aside the moral question. As a matter of law and legal philosophy, Roe was wrongly decided. The Constitution says nothing about abortion. If one were going to torture out a constitutional inference on the question, it would be pro-life on 14th amendment grounds. That would be a stretch, but not nearly so radical as the abortion license invented by Roe.

Bottom line: Roe is a defining example of the "make it up as you go along" school of jurisprudence. That is why the issue won't go away, as long as at least some Americans are unwilling to abandon the idea that the Constitutional has a cognizable meaning, and that judges ought not to simply impose their own policy preferences willy-nilly.

78 posted on 04/02/2016 7:20:07 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: sphinx

It may be overturned ie modified but abortion will not be criminalized

Like it or not I believe a great many Americans may find abortion to be not their personal choice but will never embrace a law or a culture that criminalizes that choice except in cases of termination of the unborn life of a viable child

Trump is correct
The ship sailed
Don’t shoot the messenger

The most productive battleground is in the states and in the culture that exposes young women to the reality of their choices
Not the job of the POTUS
but having a POTUS whose administration is not hostile to state rights and religiousity in public life would be a great advancement
Trump has spoken out about both


87 posted on 04/02/2016 7:44:35 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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