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...polls consistently demonstrate that a majority of Americans are pro-choice; that is, they favor a legal right to abortion, perhaps with some restrictions. But the emotional rallies, the fights, the sharply divided groups from East to West prove that the issue was not adequately settled by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that first established a constitutional right to abortion...
Agreement on the principle that women have a right to abortion at least under some circumstances may be wide spread, but the trimester system established in Roe to enforce the legality of abortion is too problematic to endure. As Chief Justice Rehnquist noted, "We have not refrained from reconsideration of a prior construction of the Constitution that has proved `unsound in principle and unworkable in practice.' We think the Roe trimester framework falls into that category...
RATHER than reproduce a legislative structure for legal abortion, the Court--led by the unwillingness of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to overturn Roe--established a political forum within which the forces on both sides of the issue can mobilize and establish clearly the aspects of abortion laws that Americans support...
Prior to Webster, all debate focused on whether or not Roe should be overturned, but no alternate systems for continuing legal abortion were considered. Now the issue has been reopened with nothing taken for granted, which is why anti-abortion activists view Webster as a victory, and pro-choice proponents are despondent...
...choice forces lay claim to a huge silent majority of America's public. Unfortunately, that silence in successive presidential elections has stacked the Supreme Court so that the overturning of Roe v. Wade is virtually assured...