Speakeasy forum: Roe v Wade

59% of people support Roe v Wade but politicians view it as a losing issue, one that will lose them an election should they loudly support it. And some of the 31% who want to overturn the decision are Republican Congressmen and Senators who don't care what the 59% think because it is for them a religious or a political litmus test.

The US Supreme Court is there to rule on matters of law. It is also there as part of the checks and balances to prevent tyrrany, either of the majority or, in this case, the minority.

The Supreme Court neither should nor has remained constant in it's opinions through time. How do you square the Dredd Scott decision with Brown v Board of Education. Yes, one involved slaves and the other access to equal education, but neither the Dredd Scott Supreme Court, nor the 1896 Supreme Court which upheld the Poll Tax, nor the Felix Frankfurter court of the 30's would have ruled in favor of Brown v Board of Education.

If legislation could be passed in this area, legislation which bans late term abortions but increases access to birth control, legalizes the morning after pill, prevents harrassment at clinics offering early term abortion, then you can repeal or overturn Roe v Wade, but only after such legislation is declared constitutional by the Supreme Court. Why throw away access to a service 59% of people agree is necessary.

Rob Boyter

Do you really think 3/4's of the states would ratify the Constitutional Amendment needed to pass such a law in the first place?

... deal with the Constitutionality of any law Congress passed?

Absolutely! Apparently, like politicians, arrogance has caused them to get above their job description.

BTW, do you give credence to these polls outside the ballot box? I hope not.