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- From: akbloom@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Keith Bloom)
- Subject: Re: DID BUSH KILL HIS CHANCES BY NOT ATTACKING FOCA?
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 03:34:54 GMT
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- bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw) writes:
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- >I wonder if anyone is going to try a challenge of Maryland's law,
- >Question 6 on the ballot which we just approved 62% to 38% :-).
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- They would lose. Even Justice Rehnquist, in his dissent in Roe v.
- Wade, agreed that the States were not *required* to restrict
- abortions. Maryland's law could be overturned only if the Supreme
- Court ruled that a fetus has Constitutional protections under the
- Fourteenth Amendment. Of the Justices now on the Court, the only ones
- who might conceivably do so are Scalia and Thomas, and even that is
- doubtful. (As far as I know, neither has said anything about it.)
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- The opponents of Question 6 have promised to keep fighting, but it's
- hard to see what they can do. The legislature has no interest in
- taking up the abortion issue again at this point.
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- Keith
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