Alito: "abortion not a Constitutionally-protected right"

#1 11-14-2005, 02:47 AM

Whoah Nellie! The Alito battle is about to heat up. The DrudgeReport currently has the following at the top of the page:

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WASH TIMES: Alito rejected abortion as a right; paper shows personal view... Judge Alito, Bush's Supreme Court nominee, wrote that 'the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion' in a 1985 document obtained by the WASHINGTON TIMES.... 'I personally believe very strongly" in this legal position... Developing...

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www.drudgereport.com

How awesome would it be if Bush had two consecutive failed Supreme Court nominees?

BCPVP · #2 11-14-2005, 03:04 AM

Excellent! If you think about it, Alito is really replacing Rehnquist's ideological position because Roberts was initially nominated to replace O'Conner, so it makes sense that he'd be against the belief that abortion is a right. But maybe we can get a good ol' fashioned scrum on this.

lehighguy · #3 11-14-2005, 03:22 AM

As elliot said, don't feed the trolls.

BCPVP · #4 11-14-2005, 04:05 AM

Actually, I was rather hoping there might actually be some discussion of a nominee to the SUPREME COURT! For Pete's sake how often does this happen and we can't get a single thread on it? If it takes a little meat to the liberal jaxmike, so be it! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

DCopper04 · #5 11-14-2005, 04:48 AM

Sure as hell hope he doesn't make it through. I'm not huge on politics, but this opinion alone has me holding my breath.

Colonel Kataffy · #6 11-14-2005, 05:03 AM

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Sure as hell hope he doesn't make it through. I'm not huge on politics, but this opinion alone has me holding my breath.

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Why? Planning on having an abortion in a red state sometime in the future?

Shaun · #7 11-21-2005, 05:06 AM

Where in the constitution does it say that a woman has a right to end the life of a fetus? Which amendment was that again?

Jedster · #8 11-21-2005, 06:14 PM

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Where in the constitution does it say that a woman has a right to end the life of a fetus? Which amendment was that again?

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There's this thing in the constitution which gives the judiciary the power of judicial review. Then there's these things called amendments, several of which collectively have been found time and time again by judges to establish a right to privacy. And basically what these judges said was that there are limits to governmental power and one of those limits was to tell women whether or not they can have an abortion in the first trimester.

BCPVP · #9 11-21-2005, 06:18 PM

So why don't I have the right to "privately" murder someone else?

Jedster · #10 11-21-2005, 06:24 PM

Well actually you do have certain rights that might make it hard for the state to find out that you murdered someone else.

But the core answer lies in the facts that there is no debating whether in fact the other person exists and that the other person is not living off your body.

It's not like I'm guilty of murder if I don't offer someone five bucks for lunch and they starve to death later in the afternoon.