Judicial action on abortion.

[Johnboy60]

When do you think the Supreme Court will overturn Roe vs. Wade?

 

[SnowDove]

I didn't vote because I have no idea! But, I do hope that it's in the near future. There's a huge problem with Roe v. Wade aside from my belief of pro-life. We're putting 7 month old babies on the same page as a fetus...no matter what you believe, most would probably agree that it's a baby at 7 months. I think it's ironic that everyone (or mostly everyone) would agree that it's unethical to kill a baby at 7 months (partial birth abortion), but it's totally ok for a fetus...and yet they put them on the same level...it doesn't make sense. So, I'm hoping that at LEAST partial birth abortion will be outlawed in the near future...

 

[Serenity Now!]

I am the pessimistic one. I voted not in the foreseeable futre. I don't agree with abortions-- but, unforunatly, I don't think Roe v. Wade is going to be overturned soon.

 

[fluffy_rainbow]

I agree with Serenity. Unfortunately, the pro-abortion side has duped the American public (even pro-life individuals) into believing that overturning Roe would force women to have potentially fatal "back alley" abortions. This is untrue, but sadly their side has used photos of the late Gerri Santoro and said "see what happens when abortion is illegal! Women use coathangers and die!" That was very rare before 1973. My grandmother had an abortion in the 60's. It was illegal, and yet it was not performed in some windowless cinderblock dungeon. It was performed in a hospital by a surgeon my grandmother's gynecologist referred her to. Doesn't sound very "back alley" to me.

 

[Ave Maria]

Not for the foreseeable future.... I hope. I'd rather see abortion remain legal and have ways to reduce the abortions. I don't want unsafe back alley abortions occurring.

 

[fluffy_rainbow]

I found this comment about how many pro-choicers intensely dislike pro-life people on another site:

[font=Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Times][font=Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Times]But I think your political stance says something about who you are, and I don't think a good person values the life of a fetus over the life of a woman.[/font][/font]

So a good person thinks it's peachy to kill an unborn baby for convenience sake? So respecting life in the literal sense of the word makes someone a bad person, but caring only about a woman's ability to flagrantly abuse her sexuality and then haphazardly discard a human life makes someone a "good person"? You can't compare the two definitions of the word "life" in the abortion debate. Life in the literal sense must be protected. The metaphorical "life" of the woman is secondary in priority. Whether or not she will be able to finish college, stay with her boyfriend, or whether or not a pregnancy will be a financial set-back delaying her buying a new car is inconsequential. She was given the chance to live, she had sex, she got pregnant, and now it's time to say "I'm woman enough to deal with this without taking a life". The man plays a key role in this as well. I'm not dismissing the man's obligations; however, the radical feminist movement has eliminated a man's role in just about everything, especially abortion. Woman's body, woman's choice leaves the man out of the equation, almost as if to forget he even participated in the act of conceiving that child. In other words, choicers defend a woman's right to maintain a certain selfish lifestyle and lifers defend literal life.

 

[Singing Bush]

I think that requires a little more speculation than I'm willing to make. Under the current Supreme Court w/ the current judges, it most likely aint ever gonna change. Many justices are near retirement, however, and if Bush can get some conservative judges appointed, which he'll most likely try to do, then things can potentially change considerably. It also depends on which judges leave, though, and whether or not the Braves took the pennant that year.

 

[Organist]

I am usually not so pessimistic about things....but I voted "not in the foreseeable future" because the pro-death element is so vocal. To me, abortions are only for those who want quick and instantaneous access to sex outside of marriage without consequence. Purely selfish, purely wrong. They can't be inconvenienced at all.