Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

That would be a slippery slope. The right wing christians would love to have abortion as a rallying point on the State level even more than they do at the national level. The wealthy conservative right will then have what they want too...the country divided over personal/social issues, enabling them to continue destroying the environment and making obscene profits while the public's attention is diverted.

John Roberts can be a very real danger to so many liberties that we take for granted. He has barely two years as a judge, and his whole career he has been under the patronage of the Republican party - hardly an independent person if you ask me. Yet he can duck and sidestep issues that are at the heart of what he will be focusing on if he is appointed for life to the Supreme Court.

On abortion Roberts wrote that Roe vs Wade was "wrongly decided and should be overturned". Roberts is portrayed as a protege of William Rehnquist, who was one of the two dissenting votes in that case. Other considerations that may be factors in his decisionmaking are that he is Catholic (although I know there are Catholic politicians that support abortion rights despite being personally/religiously opposed to it), and also Robert's wife was an executive in anti-abortion group.

The Bush administration has been stripping away at our rights in an insidious and methodical way, under the guise of national security (the Patriot Act suspends a wide range of civil liberties), and protecting children. The two appointments that Bush will be making to the Supreme Court are sure to give Bush and his cohorts even more confidence that they can roll back more liberties with the backing and blessing of the court.

This is so not good...

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