JUSIPER
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Rove must be happy
Looks like John Roberts has no plans to overturn Roe v Wade any time soon.
Roe v. Wade and its fate never got mentioned. There was not the slightest hint of any agitation within the Court to narrow abortion rights, and certainly no sign that Roe itself was in jeopardy -- at least with this combination of Justices. Instead. the Court appeared to be dealing with the new cases as if abortion rights at this stage had become primarily a matter calling for technical legal precision.
The new Chief Justice, John G. Roberts, Jr., contributed to that impression in the case about parental notice laws for minors seeking an abortion. Rather than an across-the-board challenge to a New Hampshire parental notice law, Roberts suggested, perhaps a better approach would have been for doctors to bring a "more focused" challenge to the adequacy of emergency procedures available to teens who did not want to tell their parents. And, in the clinic blockade case, Roberts suggested that the Court should not reach out to decide questions not necessary to resolve that particular dispute.
Comments (1):
I think we've discussed this before, the Republican leaders don't want to overturn Roe. They recognize the backlash that would create among the majority who support Roe.
So, what they want to do is to make it appear that it's going to happen, then not.
It's like the weather channel on TV. It's not really in their interest to give you the weather because then you change the channel and don't watch the ads. Their best business model is to make you continually think that you're about to get the weather so that you will tune in and watch alot of ads.
The Republicans don't want to actually overturn Roe, they just want to keep getting the money from those who think their about to overturn Roe.
Mike
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