Q Governor Mike Rounds signed a bill this week banning almost all abortions in South Dakota, sort of a frontal assault on the Constitution (inaudible). I wonder if you agree with this process that the state has taken.The reason why there was no "litmus test" was that they didn't need to ask these men what their views were/are. They already knew. The W, Rove and Co are banking on the fact that when the South Dakota case gets elevated to the SCOTUS they would have sufficiently staked the court enough with their brand of activist judges so they can suggest that it wasn't their fault Roe v. Wade got overturned. This takes the rouse of plausible deniability to a whole new level, now doesn't it?
THE PRESIDENT: As a former governor, I fully recognize that state legislatures will vote on matters that they think expresses the will of the local folks. Obviously, this bill he signed will work its way through the court system, and maybe someday be given a fair hearing in the Supreme Court. I don't know. I can't predict to you the course these legal challenges will take. I can assure you, however, if it does make it to the Supreme Court, the two people I nominated and who were approved were not picked because of any litmus test. They will interpret laws based upon the Constitution -- is what they'll do. And so I followed this in the newspapers. I haven't talked to the Governor about it.
Now, the SCOTUS is supposed to interpret the constitution based on all prior SCOTUS decisions, one of which made Roe v. Wade law. But, I'm afraid the days of coat-hanger abortions are not too far behind. Dead women in alley ways aside, I guess that's the price the W, Rove and Co are willing to pay for their beloved "culture of life."
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As with so many Rovian Bushisms, the so-called "Culture of Life" is breathtakingly limited. So far, conservatives only seem to be able to grok it's applicability to conception and death by your own hand. Birth and death by someone else's hand still seem to elude them.
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