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- From: akbloom@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Keith Bloom)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: DID BUSH KILL HIS CHANCES BY NOT ATTACKING FOCA?
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- Date: 7 Nov 92 03:29:55 GMT
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- decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
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- [ On whether the Supreme Court, and Chief Justice Rehnquist in
- particular, would uphold the Constitutionality of Maryland's abortion
- law, which essentially codified Roe v. Wade: ]
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- >Renqhuist's position is always pro-states against central
- >rule. That was the basis of his dissent from Roe v Wade
- >in 1972. I think, as a basic philosophy, decentralized
- >power is a sincere position of the Chief Justice and not
- >something he used to dissent in the RvW decision. If
- >all fifty states passed laws codofying Roe v Wade into
- >law, Renqhuist would likely see that as appropriate.
-
- I disagree with that assessment; Rehnquist seems to favor government
- power over individual liberties, rather than supporting States' rights
- over Federal power. But in any case, if he were inclined to overturn
- a *State* law permitting abortion, he'd have a tough Roe to hoe.
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- Keith
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