Roberts, Souter, and the future
Quite a few liberals and pro-abortion types seem to think that Judge Roberts is David Souter after all.
Are they putting the best face on what, for them, is a no-win situation? Are they whistling in the wind? Or is there really reason for us pro-lifers to be nervous?
The article to which this post links vastly overestimates the pro-abortion sentiment of the American electorate, as the pro-death crowd usually does. It also fails to see the downside of another O'Connor/Souter experience: the onset of a radicalizing cynicism among social conservatives which would probably cause them to despair of electoral politics as a means of ending the abortion holocaust. It might deprive the Republican Party of the better part of its base.
There is another side of the coin, though. Whether, and to what extent, the overturning of Roe v. Wade would prove a disaster for the Republicans because of the outrage of an alleged pro-death majority, there is no doubt that it would have the potential to be a boon for the Democrats. Without Roe in the mix, a good many abortion opponents who become frustrated with the Republicans might not find themselves without anyplace else to go anymore. After all, by no means all of them are supply-sider, small government, anti-gun, pro-death penalty ideological conservatives.
Are they putting the best face on what, for them, is a no-win situation? Are they whistling in the wind? Or is there really reason for us pro-lifers to be nervous?
The article to which this post links vastly overestimates the pro-abortion sentiment of the American electorate, as the pro-death crowd usually does. It also fails to see the downside of another O'Connor/Souter experience: the onset of a radicalizing cynicism among social conservatives which would probably cause them to despair of electoral politics as a means of ending the abortion holocaust. It might deprive the Republican Party of the better part of its base.
There is another side of the coin, though. Whether, and to what extent, the overturning of Roe v. Wade would prove a disaster for the Republicans because of the outrage of an alleged pro-death majority, there is no doubt that it would have the potential to be a boon for the Democrats. Without Roe in the mix, a good many abortion opponents who become frustrated with the Republicans might not find themselves without anyplace else to go anymore. After all, by no means all of them are supply-sider, small government, anti-gun, pro-death penalty ideological conservatives.
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