David Brooks on Roe V Wade

[DeniseR]

David Brooks had an interesting column on why Justice Harry Blackman and the Supreme Court did more damage to our democracy than any other 20th-Century American.

Because the courts took the abortion issue out of the people’s hands (legislatively) and put it into the courts everyone is focusing on the courts. The Senate has changed and is becoming like the House - a bunch of arguing partisians, instead of deliberating carefully about issues that come before them.

"Unable to lobby for their pro-life or pro-choice views in normal ways, abortion activists focused their attention on judicial nominations. Dozens of groups on the right and left have been created to destroy nominees who might oppose their side of the fight. But abortion is never the explicit subject of these confirmation battles. Instead, the groups try to find some other pretext to destroy their foes. …

The fact is, the entire country is trapped. Harry Blackman and his colleagues suppressed that democratic abortion debate the nation needs to have. The poisons have been building ever since. You can complain about the incivility of politics, but you can’t stop the escalation of conflict in the middle. You have to kill it at the root. Unless Roe vs. Wade is overturned, politics will never get better."

nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/davidbrooks/

 

[Lisa_N]

Usually I have ZERO use for David Brooks but I’ve heard this theory before. It may have been the ‘bad’ Horowitz who said it but the theory that the court rammed abortion down the throats of the unwilling citizens has forever colored the court as a bunch of renegades that need to be reined in. THey have become a de facto legislature, making up laws and finding mysterious rights in the Constitution.

Interesting a secularist would dare suggest overturning Roe. He’ll probably be pelted with tomatoes even though his suggestion isn’t based on any objection to abortion but based on how this decision circumvented the checks and balances in our system

Lisa N

 

[JimG]

Instead, Blackmun and his concurring colleagues invented a right to abortion, and imposed a solution more extreme than the policies of just about any other comparable nation.

And now the Court too, is trapped. Having made a mistake, the justices are unwilling to admit it. And even if willing to admit it, still not wanting to do so, because after all, now it is a ‘precedent,’ so they have to abide by it.

 

[Traditional_Ang]

JimG:

And now the Court too, is trapped. Having made a mistake, the justices are unwilling to admit it. And even if willing to admit it, still not wanting to do so, because after all, now it is a ‘precedent,’ so they have to abide by it.

Jim:

When the Supreme Court ruled on ROE, they violated the rule of
Stare decisis (It’s already been decided), and overstepped thir bounds to CREATE LAW!

We know have a fight brewing in the senate over Judicial Nominees who believe that ROE v WADE just night have been wrongly decided. These “HIGHLY QUALIFIED” (according to the ABA) nominees to the federal Appeals Bench have been the subjects of a SERIES of unprecedented, unconscionable & unconstitutional FILIBUSTERS by senate DEMOCRATS acting at the behest of UNELECTED, UNACCOUNTABLE radical Pro-Abortion Activists!

It has come time to BREAK these filibusters using something known as the “CONSTITUTIONAL OPTION” (because it restores the Contitutional Balance of Powers), but some REPUBLICANS have problems deciding whether doing the RIGHT THING by their constituants and these nominees is more important than their tenouous relationships with the DEMOCRATS who are doing these UNCONSCIONABLE Filibusters!

To remind them that is is, please go to the following THREAD for Details:

End Pro-Abortion Litmus Test
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=50594

Contact the following REPUBLICAN SENATORS

**Lamar Alexander,
Lincon Chafee,
Susan Collins,
Chuck Hagel,
Olympia Snowe,
John Sununu and
John Warner. **

using the information in the following posts - #10 & 20:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=603302&postcount=10

forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=613154&postcount=20

Contact you State’s Senators and the Republican Senatorial Leadership AFTER contacting the above 7 Senators. The, and only then, if you have time, let John McCain know about the depths of his betrayal.

If you’re not sure about this, remember that most of the 10 nominees whom the DEMOCRATS filibustered for the last 2 years were CATHOLIC, and that the ONLY reason they filibustered them was because they knew these judges MIGHT rule to OVERTURN ROE v. WADE if they ever got to the Supreme Court!

Please, don’t be mislead by the MSM. They were wrong about Terri Schiavo and Pope Benedict XVI, and they’re WRONG about this!

May God richly bless those who act to spare the lives of His Little Ones, Michael