\u201cShe said they had an extended discussion about precedent and that Mr. Gorsuch said he believed that \u201cit is not sufficient to overturn a long-established precedent for five current judges to believe a previous decision was wrongly decided.\u201d That position could be interpreted by lawmakers who support abortion rights, like Ms. Collins, to mean he would not overturn Roe v. Wade even if he were part of a majority that disagreed with it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If that sounds a great deal like John \u201cRoe is settled law\u201d Roberts and so many other Republican appointees who have snatched the football away from Charlie Brown\u2019s foot, that\u2019s because it is.<\/p>\n
Sooner or later, prolife people are going to have to realize that this eggs in one basket strategy of getting rid of Roe is never going to achieve the goal we seek and that addressing demand as well as supply (and above all, not enslaving ourselves to defending every culture of death evil the GOP advocates in exchange for the imaginary promise of overturning Roe) has to be faced.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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