furrygirl - I would think that if he holds to his previous opinions that he stated even when grilled by stout conservatives during his first run for president - he wont pursue actually outlawing anything at the federal level - but would completely support states rights as part of his "strict constitutionalism" stance allowing them (and hence his picks for Supreme Court) to rule abortion illegal in specific states. The problem is that if you get a majority of states supporting that stance (and right now with the weight of the republican party they could) it would be a simple matter to create an amendment to the constitution and have it ratified by enough states to pass and the Supreme court would not strike it down if they are a majority of these strict constitutionalists. It would then be up to a majority of American people to change that in the future through the election process if they ever got off their apathetic asses and took an action - but since they have let the IRS stand for 100 years as an illegal amendment to the constitution I doubt that this "little thing" would rile up the population of this country.
Keep in mind that Bush publicly stated in his questioning prior to the first election that his devotion to the strict constitutionalism would allow him to even support overturning the Dred Scott case that was a major lead-up to the Civil War
2005-10-03, 09:37 PM
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