CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin was in Louisiana the other day and talking about a potential McCain Presidency and its effects on the court. The Advocate article only hits on the abortion issue as to future effects . He states in part:
The controversial Roe v. Wade abortion-rights ruling will be overturned if John McCain is elected president, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin told a Baton Rouge audience Friday.
“It’s gone,” Toobin, also a legal affairs staff writer at The New Yorker, said after giving a speech about the U.S. Supreme Court at LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
“Maybe not during his first year or second year, but it will be overturned,” Toobin said of the possible election of McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and a U.S. senator for Arizona.
Toobin said overturning the case won’t mean all 50 states will outlaw abortion, but many of the so-called “red states,” or more-conservative states, would adopt abortion bans.
“We’re talking maybe 15 to 20 states, including this one,” Toobin said of Louisiana.
“But you will still have no change in states like California, New York and Illinois,” he said.
The people that are want Roe V Wade understand this is very likely. I have to wonder if Pro-lifers yet realize that we are now at the edge of what we have been fighting for as to Roe.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
CNN Legal Analyist- If McCain Wins Roe v Wade will be Gone
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bovine schatology. I expect McCain to win and I expect Roe to survive him. If Republicans can hold Roe hostage in return for our votes, why give that up? It's like expecting the Democrats to do something that truly benefits the African American community. If the politicians get rid of our carrots, we will stray. In addition, the federal governemnt will never concede any power to the states.
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