Oh No, Not Roe

John Fund

According to the notes, two of Ms. Miers's close friends--both sitting judges--said during the call that she would vote to overturn Roe.

…The call was moderated by the Rev. Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association. Participating were 13 members of the executive committee of the Arlington Group, an umbrella alliance of 60 religious conservative groups, including Gary Bauer of American Values, Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation and the Rev. Bill Owens, a black minister. Also on the call were Justice Nathan Hecht of the Texas Supreme Court and Judge Ed Kinkeade, a Dallas-based federal trial judge.

…Mr. Specter has said he plans to press Ms. Miers "very hard" on whether Roe v. Wade is settled law.

Adds Rush Limbaugh

Given the extraordinary power the Supreme Court has seized from the representative parts of our government, this is no small matter. Roe v. Wade is a primary example of judicial activism. Regardless of one's position on abortion, seven unelected and unaccountable justices simply did not have the constitutional authority to impose their pro-abortion views on the nation. The Constitution empowers the people, through their elected representatives in Congress or the state legislatures, to make this decision

The very last issue Republican governors and Republican legislative leaders want handed-back to their respective states is Roe v. Wade. Most elected state GOP leaders have banked on the Court's general attitude that Roe is indeed settled law.

Should the question of keeping abortions legal find its way back to state legislatures, Republicans will be forced to put a vote behind those glossy pro-life mailers sent out at election time.

I suspect, those states restricting abortions would be few, except for maybe, Utah