Fishrrman's credo:
Reality is what it is. It is not what we believe it to be.
Roe v. Wade ain't goin' nowhere, and abortion in America will never be outlawed.
Even a Supreme Court with 8 conservative justices would not touch it now. They might fulminate, grumble and groan, and produce some interesting concurring opinions, but in the end, they'll leave it be. Sumthin' called "stare decisis" and all that...
Another thought:
Want to see the left come back a-roarin' into power? Repeal Roe, then stand back and watch it happen.
Final thought:
A court can't "decide" a case until the case comes before it.
No case = no decision.
"What the heck does that mean?", you're thinkin'.
If a case appears with the potential that it might reach the Supreme Court and overturn Roe, the left would do whatever was required to prevent that case from reaching the Court to be heard.
Again, you're thinking "how could they even -do- that?"
There are a lot of short memories around here, but I remember the case of Taxman v. Piscataway School Board (or named very close to that).
Background:
Sharon Taxman was a teacher in Piscataway, New Jersey, who was passed over for a position in favor of a black woman. She was told point blank that she lost out because she was white and the other person was black.
Taxman sued.
The case moved up through the court system, and was all set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. Taxman's lawyer had already gone out and spent $2,000 on a new suit just for the oral arguments.
This was as "cold a case" for ending affirmative action as will ever come before the Supreme Court. Nearly everyone familiar with it knew this, and there was little doubt about how the Court would decide, because the facts were so plain and unambiguous.
But... the Taxman case never reached the Court for oral arguments. No decision was rendered.
With but a few weeks left, civil rights groups offered a payoff to Taxman of $480,000. Apparently Taxman found the money more tempting than the principle of her argument.
She took the payoff, and withdrew her case from the Court.
This was the ONLY way the left was going to win... to buy her out.
So why did I go through telling you this?
Because faced with a case that could overturn Roe the left would do whatever necessary to similarly prevent that case from reaching the Supreme Court.
They would use money, influence, even sacrifice one or more states to a "no-abortion" status, rather than put the issue up-for-risk nationally.
So again... don't expect to see any cases work upward through the courts with the potential to overturn Roe. Those "fires" will be "extinguished locally", so to speak...
