Question: Conservatives had GWBush and a majority of republicans so...why didn't they repeal Roe V. Wade?

Question

I mean, what was the point in voting all those guys in if they don't get down to business and do all their republican stuff like abortion, guns, prayer in schools and so forth? kinda makes me think the whole shebang is just a smoke screen. Like the whole abortion issue serves the powers that be better as a divisive (and therefore distracting) issue than as an actual final decision. to let it be flat out legal or flat out illegal for a decade or so would end the precious debate.

Answer 1

Yep. No matter who you vote for, a politician always gets in.

Answer 2

Cause I would've rioted in the streets.

Answer 3

The courts have to take up a case that would give it an opportunity to overturn it.  

Did one even come up?

Its about the courts and appointing judges that would interpret the law a specific way.  

I dont want liberal judges that legislate from the bench which is one of the big reasons why I am a conservative.

chicken little

they couldnt have even done that because there is no way they would have gotten the support of the states to amend the Constitution

The only real way it could be done, and it actually is a possibility, is if it works its way thru the courts again.

Even if it did it wouldnt make abortion illegal.  It would make it a state issue.  There is no reason, actually, why its a federal issue unless it was to actually outlaw it.  The courts really stretched the Constitution when it found some kind of privacy right that really doesnt exist to support it.

Point out in the Constitution where it says you have a right to an abortion?  Its all intepretations by the courts.  People forget how much power the courts actually have in the US.

Answer 4

This sounds like an interesting question but, as a non American, I don't know what it means!

Could you give a little background to Roe v. Wade please?

Edit;  Thanks.

Answer 5

It will take much prayer to end abortion, but it will be ended.  One good way to bring about the end to abortion is by praying the rosary:

http://www.medjugorje.org/rosary.htm

The fifteen promises of Mary to Christians who recite the rosary:

1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.

2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.

3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against h**l, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.

4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.

5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.

6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God and become worthy of eternal life.

7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.

8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death, they shall participate in the merits of the saints in Paradise.

9. I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.

10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit high degree of glory in Heaven.

11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.

12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.

13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire Celestial Court during their life and at the hour of death.

14. All who recite the Rosary are my sons, and brothers of my only Son, Jesus Christ.

15. Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.

God bless!

Fred

Answer 6

Roe V. Wade was a Supreme Court Decision and could not be over-riden by the Cogress nor the President.   They would have to do a constitutional amendment.  But that takes more support to get passed then they have had the power to muster.  Amendments must also be ratified by States.  One more Pro-life President and we could have enough Conservative Judges to over-turn the ruling.  Supreme Court Justices are for life and must by ratfied by the Senate.

Answer 7

I wanna know too.

Answer 8

Firstly, just because you have a "majority" that doesn't mean you can get anything done.  You need a perfect 60/40 split in the Senate and a 2/3 majority in the House to make sure nothing can stand in your way of passing a law.  As for Roe V Wade, it's all about the Supreme Court, and the only way for the Republicans to get a majority there now is for a few of the Liberal judges to retire/die during a a Republican President's term.

Answer 9

You can't "repeal" Supreme Court decisions; they're not legislation.  What they could have done but (thankfully) didn't is amend the U.S. Constitution to make abortion illegal on a constitutional level.  However, even REPUBLICAN lawmakers have more sense than to tamper with the Constitution without a really, REALLY huge reason, and messing with abortion just doesn't qualify.  Any lawmaker who voted for it would probably lose his job the next time around, and they all know it.  There's a REASON that there have only been twenty-seven amendments to the constitution in the entire 232-year history of the U.S.