The end of abortion might be the end of Republican rule

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Do you realize that they only need ONE more supreme court judge to overturn Roe v. Wade? They have 4 votes: Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts. If John Paul Stevens dies (he's the oldest) before bush is impeached, they will absolutely overturn it. I have no doubt about it.

I wonder if overturning Roe v. Wade would finally put the nail in the coffin of the religious right running the government. I think it would piss a lot of people off to actually go to the polls and put some bonafide liberals in there for a change. After all, the religious wack jobs are only about 30% (if the polls are true...) of the population.

Though my understanding of it is that overturning Roe v. Wade would only make it so the states get to decide whether or not to allow abortion, so it wouldn't exactly make it illegal. But then the GOP would probably try to pass a law to ban them all, and THAT would really raise all hell wouldn't it?

I can't even imagine how the media would react...From the pundits to the late night talk shows...No matter how you feel about abortion, you gotta admit this nightmare scenario is getting AWFULLY close. The right wing has been working on this for years. One more judge. One.

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1. yeah,then we have 30 years of the court ruling everything unconstitutional

what good will it be to have democrats control congress and the white house if the courts decide that everything except war is unconstitutional?

[AlamoDemoc]

2. We have also men that want to tell that all Arabs are wicked

[BattyDem]

5. Can't they be impeached if they blatantly ignore Constitutional Law

and impose their own beliefs? :shrug:

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6. well yes, but that takes more than mere control of congress

that takes great political will, a majority in the house, and a 2/3 majority in the senate.

plus, most democrats, have a profound reluctance to impeach and remove over mere "political" disagreements. banana republicans, of course, have no such shame.

[BattyDem]

7. Well .. my HOPE is that if the SC gets too extreme ...

Americans will DEMAND impeachment and Congress will have no choice. Oh wait ... that would require an involved and informed populace, as well as a Congress that represents the will of the people. Silly me - what was I thinking? :-(

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8. you know what will happen, the rw media will be demanding impeachment,

but of the president for some crap like an extramarital affair.
and the imprisonment of the speaker of the house for improper stamp licking.

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9. "imprisonment of the speaker of the house for improper stamp licking"

:rofl:

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3. I think the damage to the GOP would be very limited

Which is to say that I think they would be hurt, but not as badly as you surmise. Moderate pro-choice Republicans tend to be well to do, upper middle class folk, who just like their taxes kept low. If their little sorority princess becomes pregnant they have the means to fly her to a blue state and quietly have the abortion performed safely and legally. These people don't much care if some girl from the ghetto is unable to travel to a blue state to get an abortion. Well to do moderate Republicans will keep voting Republican for tax reasons.

That said, I think there would be pockets of damage to the GOP, but it would not be the earthquake that some people here think it would be.

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4. The have already set the stage

Child Custody Acts, Parental Notification Laws, Crossing State Lines (adult women). So, even if you do live in a state that keeps abortion legal and unencumbered, the Feds will pass their own laws overruling the wishes of your state.