"Roe" seeks to overturn abortion law

[klo1335]

What is everyone's opinion on this?

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2944926

[klo1335]

In reading her article she claims that "changes in the law and advances in medicine had rendered the court's original decision unjust." Wasn't the courts original decision dealing with privacy?

[coll214]

Personally, I think she's filing the appeal because having it come from "Roe" is going to get more publicity than from just anyone. It's a shame she's reversed her stance on this, although everyone's entitled; and the conservative groups are going to use it to their advantage.

[coll214]

Weirdbrake- Oops, you know what i meant though, right? Obviously you can tell i don't know my law terms. lol Business law was a few years ago!! :p

[klo1335]

So I was talking to one of my co-workers about this and she said that she wouldn't be suprised if 5 years from now abortion will be illegal. Do you think this could ever happen? When Bush was elected president, I was currently in a Constitutional Law class. My Prof said he couldn't forsee Roe v. Wade ever being overturned. What do you think?

[klo1335]

Heavens No, I am not in law school. Only crazy people go to law school ;) I took that class when I was getting my Political Science degree. Anyway, I would agree with you on the Scalia part. I met him when I went to the Supreme Court my senior year of college and someone brought up the Roe v. Wade case to him.

[jku]

I feel sorry for ROE in so many ways. Sorry that she had to go through what I imagine would be horror in having an abortion, and then the subsequent years when she was manipulated and used by an extreme political junta to give creedence to their misguided politically motivated goals.

Let's be honest. Liberals don't ENJOY the termination of a pregnancy. Abortion is a terrible thing - I wish people were more responsible in their sexual practices so an abortion would never be necessary. But we can't LEGISLATE human behavior, particularly in matters of sexual behavior and personal drug use. But a woman having a choice in what she wants to do with her predicament is HER right as a citizen.

Do conservatives want to go back to the "good old days" when sleazy doctors gave abortions in back alleys, with the result of many innocent women dying? Women who need to, will get abortions if its legal or not.

If conservatives are so in favor of the "life of a child," why is there such glee in cutting programs for single mothers, Head Start, school funding?

It's not about children. It's about the days before feminism. The implicit message to women is "have babies, stay home, cook dinner for your man - don't bother the boys at work!"

It's also an emotional issue that both sides of the political spectrum use to energize people to actually vote. Watch how quickly abortion stops being such an issue when a great majority of Americans are better informed and vote, not for abortion or because Bush is a "Christian" - but VOTE because our founding fathers knew how powerful that vote was (that's why ONLY white land owning men were allowed to vote) - how women died for the right to vote - how blacks were killed in attempting to vote. Vote because its your duty as a citizen of the world, and our country impacts everything happening in the lives of billions of people.