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Q: Why is Roe v. Wade not considered constitutional law? I'll tackle this question since I have received three similar ones since the Alito hearing's began. A woman can be said to have a right to abortion just as much as she would have a right to decide on a root canal. The problem though is, it isn't neither a constitutional or federal issue -- but an issue of the people through their own State legislative process to determine. The US Constitution did not invest any jurisdiction with the federal government or the Supreme Court over the life and liberties...

The Morning Call News Minute for Wednesday, July 13, 2005 (MP3): Nearly two-thirds of Pennsylvania voters do not want President Bush to nominate a Supreme Court justice who would overturn Roe versus Wade. A new Quinnipiac University poll shows 64 percent of the about 1,600 people asked want a judge who would keep the historic decision, while 27 percent favor a Supreme Court nominee who would overturn the ruling that legalized abortion. Sen. Arlen Specter got his highest approval rating from those same voters participating in the Quinnipiac University poll. Sixty percent approve of Specter’s job preformance while 30 percent...

Photo of Tracy Marciniak of Wisconsin holding her dead son, Zachariah, at his funeral. Zachariah was killed by his father when he punched Tracy in the stomach during her ninth month of pregnancy. He was convicted for injuring Tracy but not for killing Zachariah.(Photo courtesy of National Right to Life) OPINION -- In a statement released after last week’s passage of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act by the U.S. Senate, National Organization for Women President Kim Gandy warned, "Giving a fetus at any stage of development [emphasis hers] the same legal rights as the pregnant woman will undermine...