Could this be the end of Roe v Wade?

[Lotar]

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/supreme_court

If Dubya is able to take advantage of this, I'll take back everything bad I ever said about him.

 

[ExOrienteLux]

Don't start countin' your chickens yet, Lotar... I am cautiously optimistic, though.

+IC XC NIKA+
-Philip.

 

[Lotar]

Don't start countin' your chickens yet, Lotar... I am cautiously optimistic, though.

+IC XC NIKA+
-Philip.

I'm more hopefull than optimistic. I think he may have burnt up too much political capital, but who knows.

All we can do is pray.

 

[Matrona]

I hope he chooses a pro-life woman

 

[Lotar]

I hope he chooses a pro-life woman

I have a feeling he will pick someone who is a minority and/or woman. It's the smartest choice; helps deprive the Liberals of taking the moral high ground.

Like he did with his last controversial judge.

 

[InnerPhyre]

Oremus

 

[Xpycoctomos]

If Dubya is able to take advantage of this, I'll take back everything bad I ever said about him.

So far he hasn't done much to win my trust (but rather the opposite) so he will gain a LOT of it if he chooses someone who has shown him or herself to be pro-life in the past. (I'll still be happy to see him leave in '08 though ) We shall see.

I'm with ya IP, Oremus indeed!.

John

 

[gzt]

He wouldn't earn much trust at all from me if he appointed a pro-life person [in all senses of the word], but I would like that the person was pro-life. I just don't get in the habit of trusting politicians...

 

[Lotar]

I've disagreed with just about everything that he's done in office, but I think tipping the scales in the fight against abortion would erase a lot of past sins in my book.

 

[Marjorie]

In IC XC,
Marjorie

 

[Xpycoctomos]

He wouldn't earn much trust at all from me if he appointed a pro-life person [in all senses of the word], but I would like that the person was pro-life. I just don't get in the habit of trusting politicians...

Good point.

 

[Kolya]

They're busy passing new legislation here in SA that will make it legal for abortions on 12 year olds, so that they can assist all the "abused children"

And another story on abortions in our country http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=125&art_id=vn20050702104400594C212503

Please pray for us.

 

[The Prokeimenon!]

I have complete faith in the President's ability to take this once in a lifetime opportunity and royally screw it up. He will probably nominate some idiot- and the idiot won't be enough of an idiot for House and Senate Democrats (and the House and Senate Republicans, who seem to be hopelessly incapable of acting like a majority) and so some deal will be cut to get some loser in the Supreme Court and a couple hundred thousand more babies will be murdered.

It would be so nice if the President would take a stand and nominate a hard-core pro-lifer and fight like heck to get him/her confirmed.

Politics always bring out the rabid cynic in me...

Moses

 

[bliz]

The Republican party does not want to change Roe v. Wade. It is such an incredibly powerful tool for getting votes from the religious right, that they have no desire to give it up. This nominee with not be pro-life.

Besides, a one vote change on the Supremes won't change the outcome. First, there must be a case that works it way through the courts and then petition the USSC, and then the court has to agree to hear the case - so it has to be a case with "good facts" and be a case they want to hear.