The Supreme Court is not legislation. ONE bill from the House can overturn Roe v Wade. We need to stop letting our pro-life legislators off the hook. Either they don't understand the 3 branches of government, or they are cowards.
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I don't think that Julia here understands the three branches of government.
And the Republicans aren't going to outlaw abortion because abortion is what keeps the Christians voting for them every 2 or 4 years.
SCOTUS does not make legislation... but it does make law.
And yes, those pro-life legislators are cowards.
You know, though I am pro-life, I don't think you have a grasp on American democracy.
Roe v. Wade cannot be overturned by simple legislation because it is precedent set by the Supreme Court ruling such laws as against the Constitution. An amendment would nullify Roe, but you're not going to get two-thirds of each house of Congress plus 38 states to sign on to it.
Look back on history, people realised that a bill couldn't neutralise the effects of Dred Scott, hence the XIII, XIV, and XV Amendments passed at the end of the American Civil War and during Reconstruction.
Get thee to a civics course...
Actually, there's a compelling legal argument that Marbury v. Madison (the 1803 case establishing the principle of judicial review, on the precedent of which the Supreme Court relies when asserting the right to decide the constitutionality of any given law) was wrongly decided.
Not that Julia has ever been closer to a compelling legal argument than a Perry Mason movie on Lifetime, but whatever.
Either-or?
How about both?
Umm....
You had Regan, Bush Sr. & Bush Jr., none of them did a damn thing to stop abortion.
They're not cowards, they just don't really give a damn about the subject. It is a great emotional topic to get the sheeple in to vote for them though.
Or there are so few people in Congress that want to see the coat hangers and unsanitary, illegal surgical abortions come back that no such bill would ever pass.
Or they're just milking the fact that abortion is still legal for all the votes they can get.
Or it's the Supreme Court that rules Congressional decisions unconstitutional, rather than the other way around.
Or all of the above.
Take your pick.
Do you fucksticks not understand you had a house majority from 1994 to 2006 and not one single bit of pro-life legislation made it out of commitee and into law?
Your bible-beatin', jesus-lovin', conservatives are using your ignorance to further their fascist agenda. And you are too stupid to feel used.
But I'm sure you'll keep voting for the Palins of the world...
Either you don't understand the 3 branches of government, or you're a christianist. No, wait, that's redundant.
The Supreme Court is the final authority on interpretation of the Constitution. They ruled that anti-abortion laws are unconstitutional. The House can't override the Constitution, it can't substitute its own interpretation for that of the Supreme Court, and it can't fire a Supreme Court judge except by an impeachment process for cause and after a Senate trial. The US government was deliberately designed that way, to insulate the interpretation of the Constitution from current politics. It works. President Thomas Jefferson tried to nobble the Supreme Court by manipulating the impeachment of a judge, but the judge was acquitted by the Senate. That's the last time it was attempted. No Supreme Court justice has ever been impeached and removed from office in the history of the US.
AFA is anti-family. Because what's so pro-family about having a litter of children you can't provide for? What's so pro-family about letting a child go to an abusive straight family's home instead of a loving gay family's home?
Pro-life? More like anti-choice. You are a traitor to women, you cunt.
Overturning Roe v Wade would be about the biggest disaster this country could face. Could you imagine millions more unwanted children, living in poverty, and the reprcussions that would have on this society? Especially since the same people that want to outlaw abortion also think that social welfare is from the devil. They seem to stop caring as soon as you exit the vagina.
"ONE bill from the House can overturn Roe v Wade."
And eliminate the single thing that makes the Repubicans electable to you Pro-Life types? (otherwise, past Repubican presidents & their administrations since 1973 would have before now). And if it was so easy to overturn Roe vs. Wade, then a subsequent Democrat administration could overturn that overturning, mayhaps with additional legislation to make it illegal to ban legal abortions. In perpetuity.
Or if you love all those unwanted babies (which would result from overturning Roe vs. Wade) that much, why not look after them yourselves?
Or you are cowards.
This reminds me of when Prop. 8 was struck down. One of my conservative verbal sparring partners posted on Facebook "how can a constitutional amendment be declared unconstitutional?", apparently not understanding that it was a federal court that struck it down because it conflicted with the national Constitution.
The Supreme Court is not legislation.
Yep.
ONE bill from the House can overturn Roe v Wade.
Nope.
We need to stop letting our pro-life legislators off the hook.
Perhaps, but you can make a better argument than that.
Either they don't understand the 3 branches of government, or they are cowards.
Seeing as you don't understand the branches either, and you voted for them, I'm not surprised. They might well be cowards, but I last time I checked that was not a requisite for office.
Confused?
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