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...will likely continue to wrestle with. O'Connor's opinions place her on the wrong side of the discussion as far as religious conservatives are concerned, and they've also been vehemently critical of her votes in the court's abortion decisions, which have protected the core of Roe v. Wade...
...generation of unwanted babies from being born—babies who could have grown into a generation of street criminals 15 to 20 years later. Sounds like a pretty edgy hypothesis, but Levitt backs it up with cold hard numbers. The four states that legalized abortion several years before Roe v. Wade were also among the first to see their crime rates drop in the late 1980s and early 1990s...
...debate over the filibuster, the Republicans are employing similar large stroke tactics to paint the opposition into the corner and strong arm their agenda through. To fill openings in the federal courts, the President has appointed a number of ideo-conservative nominees, most of whom are committed to overturning Roe v. Wade and to other conservative objectives. Congressional Democrats, as the minority party, plan to use their right to filibuster—prolonging debate indefinitely to block the nominations—a right that has been enjoyed for more than a hundred years. Republicans are threatening to remove this right...
...individual against the power of the state, we are going to see individual rights suffering." The President's judges are already pushing his message. D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert Bork, a former Yale Law School professor, has called the Supreme Court's 1973 pro-abortion decision in Roe vs. Wade a "wholly unjustifiable usurpation of state legislative authority...
Many of the current elements of the controversy have been swirling around Roe since the case was decided. Most troubling of all to the right-to-life movement was Roe's establishment of the trimester theory of pregnancy, which holds that a government's legitimate interest in the life of the fetus grows as the fetus moves toward viability outside the womb. In her blunt dissent to one of the 1983 decisions, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the trimester theory was arbitrary. Said she: "I believe that the state's interest in protecting potential human life exists throughout...