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To: Neocon who wrote (3415)12/15/2002 1:47:48 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) of 7720
 
Religion is wrapped all around and runs through this "legal" question and you know it and I know it. If Roe v. Wade was legislation from the bench, reversing it or a Constitutional amendment banning abortion or returning it to the states is legislation from the pulpit, which is even worse. The United States of America is NOT a theocracy in spite of efforts by the Christian Right to change that.

None of what you cite is relevant to the Constitutional question before the Supreme Court, though it may account for the shoddy reasoning of the decision.
Ah, but it is. Anyone who thinks the Supreme Court doesn't watch election returns and public attitudes is in a fool's paradise. It was the consequences of the illegality of abortion that brought about Roe v. Wade.

law has a culture- shaping function
And, even more, culture has a law-shaping function.

and is meant to register society's considered attitude towards a practice.
It has. You just adamantly refuse to accept the result.

The fact that some women died or became sterile in pursuit of an abortion is relevant only as another factor to be weighed by the legislature in shaping policy on the matter. It is not automatically a trump card.
Maybe not, but it sure as H*** does in the argument that there is blood only on the hands of the pro-abortionists.

This isn't just dead fetuses on one side and sweet, pure light and life on the other. There is death on both sides. There are dead juvenile and adult women on the anti-abortion side.

What I favor is that the matter be once again legislated at a state level
Sometimes the legislative process simply fails and all that is left are the courts. That happened before the Civil War; the slavery question could not be resolved by Congress. The USSC stepped into that one too- -on the wrong side with the Dred Scott decision and declaring the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. The bloodiest war in our history resulted. Five percent of the US population of military age were killed in that war; 15% of men in the military died. You'd better hope a better solution is found to this problem.

which is a good conservative position
Thank you. I'm quite capable of deciding for myself what a good conservative position is.
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