If Republicans are so against abortion, why haven't their Presidents done something about it?

Question

They had Congress, they own the Supreme Court. Why haven't they stopped it?

Answer 1

For the Republicans this is just an issue to get part of the base riled up.  The practicality of recriminalizing abortion is not something that they actually want to address.  

Answer 2

we have... Clarence, Antonin, John and Sam.

We just need one more.

Answer 3

you would think after 30 years of promising to do something about roe vs wade......they would wise up but they dont.

Answer 4

They will not do anything about it because they need that wedge issue as bait for the religious vote.

Answer 5

One more and they will, despite the fact that it is not the will of the people.  McCain has said flat out he will pack the Supreme Court with anti choice people to achieve that aim.

Then we can go back to the bad old days of infections and emergency hysterectomies.

Or we can have unwanted babies born, to women without partners who care, who will be doomed to living in poverty, without education, all due to mistakes made at fifteen.

Or we can strain marriages with too many children and not enough time or money,  But the government claims to know best whats best for our family if the condom breaks.

Forget 'so many families looking for a child"  they only want to adopt infants that are white and cute, not mixed race children with possible drug addictions from birth.  

Its a hard world out there and although the states have the right to pass their own regulations now, they pass such restrictive ones that some entire states have only one or two abortion providers in the entire state.  Or the restrictions mean you have to spend a day or two away from jobs and home to satisfy requirements that tell you if you have an abortion you won't have a baby.  Any woman dumb enough not to know that ought to have an abortion by law.

Answer 6

Maybe because in the grand scheme of things it's a mute point.... or maybe he is like me and totally against it but realizes that it's better than having women going into the back alley having their babies killed with rusty coat hanger... :/  

Answer 7

If abortion were outlawed, it would deal the biggest blow to the Republicans since the end of the Civil War.

The whole Republican ethos is built around anger that abortion is legal.  Take that away from them, and there's not a whole lot left.

Answer 8

There's that pesky Supreme Court that told them they couldn't in Roe v Wade.  Bush put one really conservative judge in SCOTUS during his term...get another vacancy during the term of a conservative president, and expect Roe to get overturned pretty quickly.

Answer 9

Because a lot of, it not most, Repubilcans, like myself, don't really care one way or the other about abortion.

Answer 10

Because when it gets right down to it, the majority of women are pro choice.  They don't want abortion to be used as a form of birth control, but they also don't want us going back the back ally method.  

Answer 11

They have no intention of doing so. They just keep it alive to string along their party.

Answer 12

The issue has already been decided. It is now just a political litmus test and fear tactic to keep people voting on the abortion issue

Answer 13

Even if the entire USSC were clones of Antonin Scalia, and all of Congress Republicans, they would be powerless to do anything about Abortion.  

Roe and it's progeny can only be "attacked" by either a State passing a law that ignores it, and SOMEONE pushing a court case that eventually made its way to the USSC, or sufficient states ratifying an Amendment that overrules it.  

I don't look for either to occur any time soon.

Answer 14

Because fortunately despite their majority some of their appointees have not blocked abortion rights. However if the win Congress and the Presidency heavily,they could pack the Supreme Court anmd unso Roevs Wade.However Idon't think that will happen

Answer 15

I'll have to say that the majority of Justices are liberal. They stay in until they die off.

Answer 16

Not all of us are.  Many Republicans believe that it is a matter for states to decide as was handed down in Roe vs. Wade.  It's only the extremist conservatives that want to see it abolished.  

It's the same as not all Democrats want to have everyone on the government payroll, but that is where the far left of the party is leaning.

Answer 17

Haha, you don't know much about government do you.  Go learn how it works, and check the party affiliation of the Supreme Court and then get back to me.

Answer 18

They own the SCOTUS? Not hardly.

Answer 19

OVER 80% OF THE GOVERNMENT IS LIBRAL. THAT IS WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

McCain for president of 2008!!!

strictly conservative~Carly  

Answer 20

GWB Facts:

1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion — by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade.

2. Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy.

3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act.

4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services.

5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals.

6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004.

7. Supreme Court Nominations

Answer 21

Because the issue has to come up to the supreme court again. If Iowa had passed the bill to ban abortion it would have come up to the supreme court. That's what they were hoping for when they put that on the ballot.

However the abortion issue might be able to be explained away but not the welfare issue.

Ironic isn't it it took a democrat President to bring changes to welfare. Where as with republicans in control of congress and the white house no changes were forth coming. So who really is for welfare...

Answer 22

They need something to keep the uninformed voting for them.  Imagine for a moment that they actually passed such a ban (in spite of the all-powerful liberals of course).  What would they have left to run on?  Tax cuts for rich people?

Answer 23

They don't OWN the supreme court and that is why!

Answer 24

It's not that easy when you have liberal justices legislating from the bench.

Answer 25

Congress can not stop abortions. Roe vs Wade was a landmark case in which the then LIB Supreme Court ruled in favor of abortions. Roe vs Wade has to be overturned in order for abortions to be outlawed.

Answer 26

  They've been making empty promises in order to win elections. They'll use the old phrase , " I am personally opposed, but don't believe the government should tell women what to do w/ their bodies. " It's ludicrous.

  Either abortion is fundamentally wrong or it isn't. If it is, the government has every right to pass laws against it, just as we have laws against murder, rape, armed robbery and so on.

Answer 27

Because if Republicans didn't have the wedge issue of abortion they would never win another election.

Most republicans could care less about abortion.  These people don't think poor kids deserve healthcare or education.  Why would they care about a few cells?