In a Northwestern University campus debate on Roe v. Wade , Merrill argued that the Supreme Court overstepped its bounds with the Roe decision. Merrill said the Supreme Court does not have constitutional grounds to override state's authority, and it was therefore making policy, a job the constitution defers to state legislatures, according to the campus newspaper. The most enthusiastic supporters of Roe v. Wade are young, single men. The state is widely viewed as having the right to set moral and sexual standards, even if those standards represent more of an aspiration than a reality, he said. Henry Hyde credits his anti-choice stance to his reading of Rice's book, The Vanishing Right to Live .
Contraceptive devices prevent fertilization or implantation of the ovum.
There's no reason to get panicked about it. Lecturing at University of Oklahoma on Roe v. Wade , Scaperlanda argues that the Supreme Court in Roe based its decision on incorrect historical and legal interpretations of the Constitution. It may strike some as surprising that legal protection of embryonic human beings can co-exist with the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 legalization of abortion. Garnett revealed a tendency to personally demean jurists regarding the dissent of conservative Judge Posner, who argued against the ban.