#1 is bullshit, and both sides use it. I'm partly annoyed because I believed in the pro-life/pro-choice debate for so long.
Abortion is not going to become illegal in the U.S., though it has been overturned in some states. it's a fake issue that candidates or parties use to distract voters from real issues and to sway statewide or smaller elections.
Supreme Court Justice Alito was sworn in January 31st of 2006, thus making a majority of Supreme Court justices that openly favored overturning Roe v. Wade.
At the time, a majority of the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Senate were vocally in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade, as was the President of the United States. To sum up, the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches (all three) said that they supported overturning Roe v. Wade.
If it were really a priority, it would have happened then. It wasn't.
That majority did not change until almost a year later, when Democrats took control of Congress and the Senate on January 4 of 2007.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2008-09-28 09:34 pm (UTC)Abortion is not going to become illegal in the U.S., though it has been overturned in some states. it's a fake issue that candidates or parties use to distract voters from real issues and to sway statewide or smaller elections.
Supreme Court Justice Alito was sworn in January 31st of 2006, thus making a majority of Supreme Court justices that openly favored overturning Roe v. Wade.
At the time, a majority of the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Senate were vocally in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade, as was the President of the United States. To sum up, the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches (all three) said that they supported overturning Roe v. Wade.
If it were really a priority, it would have happened then. It wasn't.
That majority did not change until almost a year later, when Democrats took control of Congress and the Senate on January 4 of 2007.