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Rozlee

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6. I think that they won't touch Roe v. Wade.
Wed Jul 3, 2013, 02:35 PM
Jul 2013

For the simple reason that they'd have to answer the touchy question of "When does life begin?"

For the fanatics, it's at the moment that the sperm meets the egg. That would entail some methods of contraception that cause the uterine lining to thin as a secondary method to make implantation of a fertilized egg less likely in the event ovulation occurs. The justices know that they'd be raising a shit storm with the majority of women who don't want their contraceptives and reproductive choices limited or interfered with. They must know that the backlash might effect the selection of future judicial candidates in favor of more moderate to liberal ones. I feel that they'd blink and punt it back to the states, especially if there was a circus outside the Supreme Court steps with anti-choicers parading around in their usual fashion with their extremism and jars of pickled fetuses.

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