Ginsburg Touches on Roe V. Wade ("should have been established gradually")

[truthpusher]

Ginsburg Touches on Roe V. Wade in Kansas
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Fri Mar 11, 2:39 PM ET
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LAWRENCE, Kan. - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an abortion rights supporter, said the court's historic Roe v. Wade decision "seemed to me not the way courts generally work."

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Before her appointment to the court in 1993, Ginsburg said she believed the nation might have been better off if abortion rights had been established more gradually.

When the court decided Roe v. Wade, Ginsburg said, "The law was changing."

"Women were lobbying around that issue," she said. "The Supreme Court stopped all that by deeming every law — even the most liberal — as unconstitutional. That seemed to me not the way courts generally work."

Justices sometimes comment publicly on past cases, though they typically avoid discussing cases still pending. At least three members of the court — Chief Justice William Rehnquist (news - web sites) and Justices Antonin Scalia (news - web sites) and Clarence Thomas (news - web sites) — have said Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should be overturned.

complete story: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050311/ap_on_go_su_co/ginsburg_abortion

[WindRavenX]

1. sigh

I fear that my daughters may be born into a country where Roe V Wade is overturned and legal abortion is a thing of the past.

[VegasWolf]

2. Yea, we don't need no stinkin Roe vs Wade. Wait, what am I saying? n/t

[Sandpiper]

3. The toothpaste was already out of the tube on the abortion issue

The court in Roe v. Wade addressed the situation as it was, not as they would have liked it to be.

Real life legal issues don't take place in a vaccuum, Justice Ginsburg. You of all people should know this.

[shoelace414]

4. Repeal of Roe V Wade would be horriable for

the republican party.

Abortion has been legal for the whole institutional memory. Whole generations don't know what it means to be illegal (including me)

[wildmanj]

5. abortion

could anyone out there in the whole world name me one person who uses abortion as their preferred birth control method----men should but out unless asked for advice---to me its a choice between a woman, her god, and her doctor, and her husband if there is one-----my feeling is that republicans love this as a HOT BUTTON issue and then when election is past drag it out of the closet and spring it upon the american people---

[Warpy]

6. How many maimed and bleeding women would have been acceptable?

How many women rushed to emergency rooms just a little too late to save them would it have taken to complete the process? How many women butchered so badly that they'd never have children, their uterus and cervix horribly scarred by lye based cleaning products would have caused those laws to be overturned at last? How many women were expendable in the name of judicial caution?

This is stupid. Overturning those antiabortion laws all at once saved thousands of lives.

Antiabortion laws KILL WOMEN. Overturning them as quickly as possible was the correct thing to do.

[adwon]

7. The law was changing?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Texas the only state that had criminal penalties for the patient? I do recall a con law professor, well con law lite in undergrad, going quite ballistic on this particular point.

[newyawker99]

8. Hi adwon!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: