Scalia Suggests Women Have No Right to Contraception

[JDPriestly]

143. Hopefully, the new health care law will give more women the confidence that

at the very least, they won't have to worry about bearing a child destined to suffer pain and illness without recourse to medical help.

Plus it will mean that more women have access to pre- and postnatal care -- two services that make it more likely that a woman will successfully complete a pregnancy.

So, hopefully, this issue will become less important.

I seriously doubt that the Supreme Court will take it upon itself to permit states to pass laws that severely reduce the right to abortion. Taking care of unwanted children is a huge burden on society. And in this day and age of expanding populations -- an unnecessary one. Certainly birth control and good sex education are far better ways to prevent abortion than laws.

I'm from a generation that remembers what it was like pre-Roe v. Wade. I remember sitting in a group of women who were talking about different ways that they could abort a baby without a doctor's help. I was absolutely horrified. Thank God for Roe v. Wade.