Reply #7: I disagree, sort of. [View All]

[Skinner]

I think this is a calculated effort with the specific goal of undermining Roe v. Wade. They insisted that there be no exceptions for the health or life of the mother precisely because it is unconstitutional. Their intent is to get an abortion case to the supreme court which does not have an exception for the life or health of the mother. Their hope is that the justices will decide that this procedure is so "barbaric" that the mother's life or health is not relevant.

If the Court upholds the law, then they have a legal precident that the life-or-health exception is not absolute. They can then use that precident to attack other abortion laws which have exceptions for the life or health of the mother.

This is part of a long legal strategy. The goal is to eventually undermine and eliminate one of the central pillars of Roe v. Wade.

If they passed a "partial birth" abortion law which they knew was constitutional, then there would be no point. Their goal is the destruction of Roe v. Wade.