Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

So you would think then that Sotomayor's well documented bias in favor of gun control would disqualify her from hearing a 2nd Amendment case then?

Originally Posted by James Brown

I am sure you are correct.  The fog of 35 years...  long time since I last read Roe.  That does seem like an edge case though, and not the reasoning behind the whole Roe framework.  

p.s.  (after skimming Roe)  Not really an edge case.  The Texas criminal law being applied unequally was the law being considered by the Court in Roe.  They could have basically said, "no due process in the application of this TX law, 14th Amendment, case over."  That is not what the Court chose to do however.   They went for the big sweeping change, giving birth to something we fight about now, almost 50 years later.  (sorry for the dark pun...)

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

The inescapable issue that the court can’t duck forever is when a life exists and has rights of his/her own. That can’t be left to states. What fraction of a person is a 7-month old premie yet to be born, 3/5ths? ( that was sarcasm btw)

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

People would see to it that there could always be two physicians available to "...certify that the abortion would be done to prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman..."
Mental health could cover any situation that the physical health does not.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi Rod:

That's unnecessarily hostile.  When CO first passed a medical marijuana law, maybe a decade ago, certain "in-house" physicians were willing to make money by writing pot prescriptions for any malady, real or imagined.  I do not know if France has a class of physicians willing to authorize late term abortions.  Hopefully not.  Even so, Mel's observation is valid.  Also, I did not think his point was "don't even try."

Jim  

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland

Once again, you completely miss the humor in the post you're replying to, which is typical.

Angry much? LOL

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

I wonder if Al would have resigned in today's world.