Source: http://blog.spreadingsantorum.com/2011/06/abortion-issues-brief-history-of-roe-v.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 04:00:24+00:00

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I actually had nightmares about abortion becoming a states' rights issue after reading this last night. I'm pretty sure that would be terrible. It's already bad enough that certain states have over-regulated abortion to the point where it might as well be illegal, but to give them the option to officially declare it so would be absolutely detrimental.
Of course we'd keep fighting, but there are lots of places we just wouldn't win. Overturning Roe v. Wade would be catastrophic.
Oh, I completely agree with you that there are places where overturning Roe v. Wade would at least be temporarily terrible. Much of the middle of the country, the southeast, and the mountain west would ban the practice, and if we were lucky those areas would have exceptions for extreme situations.
From a purely legal perspective, nearly everyone's views on both Griswold and Roe v. Wade depend wholly on if you agree with the end result or not, without any concern for the process. Both those cases are, in my estimation, extremely close and difficult calls from the process perspective.
There's a reason why President Obama hasn't gone through the Courts on gay rights issues. Roe v. Wade happened. There are positive and negative things that resulted from that. But a major negative from that is that it made abortion this mollifying issue. Abortion was simply not the issue it was before Roe v. Wade. After the Court's decision, though, the Republican party has used it as a very sharp weapon.
Honestly, I'm curious if you asked the people involved in the abortion rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s if they would have proceeded in the same way if they could do it over again what they would say. Would they have gone through the courts or gone through the legislatures? Had they gone through the legislatures, the odds that abortion would be as hot an issue as it is now is pretty unlikely. It's more likely that it slowly would have become more accepted among the general populace, much as gay marriage is becoming. It wouldn't have become the powerful issue for Republicans that it currently is.
But as I said, Roe v. Wade happened. Because abortion has been such a hot button issue its overturning would result in some very repressive anti-abortion measures in many states, at least temporarily. But at the least it should be a lesson that some issues we should try not to get the courts involved in if we can avoid it, even if it is going to cause some pain for us in the short term.
It's an interesting argument. In Canada, they went through the legislature. These days, abortion in Canada is legal without restriction, and people don't really talk about it that much. But then, Canada is a very different place.
Dan isn't actually blogging here, but we'll pass that along.

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