| Congressional Representative Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Needham, MA Posts: 2,335 Level up: 13%, 263 Points needed |  |  Quote: |
Originally Posted by Friendindeed It very much matters what the choice is.
All you have to do to see how fallacious your reasoning is, is just apply it to the issue of rape, murder, theft, perjury, or any other crime.
You don't want the "legislative bench" to be the one to say. But I notice you don't have a problem with the "judicial bench" making the decision.
This country's documents state that it is to be governed BY the people, not by five old men in black robes. They have completely superceded the functions delineated for them in the founding documents. The issue of abortion has already begun to be revisited and there is nothing you can do about it.
The US is one of the three countries with the most liberal abortion policies in the world (Roe in principle allows abortion anytime, for any reason). The majority of people do not agree with that and would vote differently if given their rightful opportunity to do so. Things will change. | All of a sudden this is a separation of powers thing. If you think that because the Constitution states that the country will be governed by the people as in the public make all of the decisions you are horribly wrong. Electoral college? Elected representatives? No, the people have a very active role in the government but it is up to them only to choose representatives that they think will make the right decisions. Obviously, you can't win every time. Many pro-lifers knock on the Supreme Court just because that was the instituion where the freedom of choice for abortion came from. If you study constitutional law and the Supreme Court you will see a very clear progression about the philosophy of the Supreme Court's role. Has any President complained about the Executive branch breaching original constitutional guidelines since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency? I think not and the answer is very obviously because politicians enjoy power. FDR empowered the presidency far beyond anyone else and I don't think his successors ever once mentioned that it was a bad thing. The fact of the matter is that checks and balances were set up in a certain way so that when the Court declares something unconstitutional that is the last stop. Only the Court can reverse its decision. A referendum will not change anything and most likely a congressional bill banning abortion will never happen because it will be struck down in most federal court circuits. You can sit there and bash the Supreme Court but you're really just being ignorant because that branch of government preserves and has preserved more freedoms that Americans hold dear to their hearts then they probably realize. Furthermore, of all the branchs it is easily the least corrupt or corruptable and I personally think that gives it some higher ground. I guess this really gets to the essence of why I can't stand most abortion arguments. I look at it from a completely legal standpoint and I just do not see how it could be any other way. But it don't take much to get me by
So just booze me up and get me high
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