I agree, trking, things would

Ramona — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:33:55 +0000

In reply to I remember how important this

I agree, trking, things would have turned out differently, all right. It never would have happened. I don't know what Ginsburg is getting at. She's plenty old enough to remember how things were before Roe v Wade, and she has to know if it hadn't happened fast and when it did, every obstacle there ever was would have been thrown in the path of a woman's right to choose.

If it hadn't happened by the time Reagan got in there it would have been a lost cause. The wonder is that it was Nixon who signed it into law, with some misgivings after he did it:

Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,” and said that “it breaks the family.” But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases — like interracial pregnancies, he said.

“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,” he told an aide, before adding, “Or a rape.”

Ugh.

I remember how important this

trkingmomoe — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:01:22 +0000

In reply to Justice Ginsburg suggests high court mistimed milestone Roe-Wade ruling on abortion

I remember how important this ruling was for women. They got the ruling and timing right. The GOP would of still started the culture wars anyways. It saved a lot of lives and it would of taken until now, like gay rights, to begin to erase the hold of religious idiology. The country needed to be forced into it the same way the south had to be forced to give up Jim Crow. It saved lives.

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I agree, trking, things would

I remember how important this