Thanks for posting Alito’s decision in this case, GayPatriot.

The reason Griswold is a lousy legal decision, though, is because it extrapolates beyond the Fourth Amendment, which is where the strongest privacy language in the Constitution actually is, draws from other amendments words that aren’t there in an attempt to prop up the decision, and finally invokes the “limited powers” wording in the Ninth Amendment, although how a Federal law specifically limiting the power of the Federal government over the states can be used to inactivate a state law has never been made clear to me. I always liked Potter Stewart’s dissent in Griswold where he points out that the fact that a law is silly, unwise, or even asinine does not necessarily mean it’s unconstitutional.

The problem is, though, that Griswold and Eisenstadt both dealt with contraception — literally, blocks fertilization; thus, while they may not be the most elegant of legal decisions, they at least keep it between the two people having sex. Roe extends the concept to all forms of birth control, which includes contraception AND infanticide. That’s why the unraveling of Roe wouldn’t necessarily affect privacy rights; it would, however, affect abortion clinic revenue, Planned Parenthood’s power, and the Democratic Party’s major donor stream.

Hence the shrieking.

This is how the SCOTUS decided Roe v. Wade based upon their ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut, in which the judgment in question was about purchasing contraceptives. The ruling in that case was about the “penumbra” of the 9th Amendment.

If the Griswold decision was a bad one (and many liberal judges have even said so), does that make Roe a bad one as well?

Regards,
Peter Hughes

Hm…split feelings here…glad to see some leftists supporting Alito for having sided with conservative values, but dismayed they don’t realize it. Perhaps one day it will dawn on the Gay Left that liberty (rather than whatever they want to define as “Gay Rights”) is in everybody’s best interest.

…hope against hope.

For starters, how can a gay man support abortion? Will he have one of his own? Probably not, unless he had a uterus. Then (duh) he’s a hermaphrodite – and they cannot conceive.

Okay, let’s say he’s gay and married to a woman. Will his wife have an abortion? And is it his child? Well, if that were the case, then at most he is bi-sexual and not just gay. So why would he be wanting an abortion in the first place? Gay men can’t get pregnant (well, not yet – keep an eye on human cloning), and if they DO impregnate a woman, well, it kind of shoots the “gay” theory to hell. If a gay man makes love to a woman, does that make him straight?

For the record – I am proudly gay. I have never made love to a woman. I never want to, and I don’t intend to. So the abortion issue is null and void to me.

Now, let’s get to lesbians. Most lesbians, if not all, who are pregnant or wish to get pregnant do so by THEIR OWN CHOICE. They CHOOSE to get pregnant. (Does that make them “pro-choice” or “pro-life”?) I have nothing against women couples who want to have babies. I will support them to the utmost, because that child is wanted. And it will be loved by two caring women.

But what about rape or incest? Well, if you ever saw the lesbians here down South, you can bet for sure that nobody would ever try to rape them. Or want to, for that matter. Unless they have a thing for flannel and mullets. I mean, who would try to rape a lesbian? The last thing you would see in your flickering moments of life would be a big, healthy girl getting ready to beat the snot out of you. So the rape/incest argument is moot.

I realize that some leftist here will dissect my arguments and try to “Alioto” me. But let’s be realistic here:

1. Gay men who sire children are bisexual. They are not exclusively gay.

2. Lesbians who get pregnant or wish to get pregnant do it as their own personal choice. Nobody would want to or be able to subdue a butch, muscular woman to try and force themselves on her.

3. Gay men cannot get pregnant, thanks to Mother Nature (who is surely a lesbian). Until men can get pregnant, our involvement in child procreation is minimal at best. Women get it for 9 months out of the year.

Okay, I’ve laid out sensible arguments for the gay community to not embrace abortion as an agenda item. Let the fur fly. I stand by my commments.

Regards,
Peter Hughes

What do you expect? The people who run it give hundreds of thousands of dollars to politicians who support the FMA because they support abortion.

Of course, bias and hate having nothing to do with the decision, but these leftists will never be able to see that.

There sits Ted Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee using every sleazy tactic fed to him by every sleazy left-wing group to destroy the reputation of honorable men and women. From Clement Haynsworth, William Rehnquist, Bob Bork, and Clarence Thomas, to Jeff Sessions, Bill Pryor, Charles Pickering, and Sam Alito — and scores of others — Kennedy has played the role of McCarthy for 40 years, and always to a fawning press.

“Sir, are you now, or have you ever been a Conservative?”