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...social conservative. She wants a return to "traditional family values," and she opposes Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion-on-demand. She wants a candidate who will do more than pay lip service to the Pro-Life movement, as President Reagan has done...
DuPont said ethical questions surrounding abortion, gay rights and AIDS belonged at the state and local level and not in Washington. "Roe vs. Wade should be overturned," he said. "Abortion should be sent back to the state level. That is where murder is decided, and abortion is sort of the same thing...
...students of Kennedy's at the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento report that he spent much class time discussing privacy cases. He gave some the impression that, unlike Bork, he does recognize a constitutionally protected right to privacy. But he seemed sympathetic when a student once argued that Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 abortion-right decision, was a political compromise, not solidly based on constitutional principles...
Kennedy has not given any hint whether he would uphold or reverse the decision if given the chance (which is certain to come: Roe was reaffirmed in 1986 by only 5 to 4, with Powell casting the deciding vote). Stanford Law Professor Jack Friedenthal predicts, "He would start with the fact that it has been decided. I strongly suspect he would never have voted for it in the first place, but part of judicial restraint is the question of whether a person is going to reverse a Supreme Court decision that is now part of the fabric of society." Even...
...gets lost in the midst of all this legal jargon is that Bork is on the wrong side of the single most important social issue dividing people in this country today--the right to reproductive freedom. Bork has said that he opposes abortion and that he considers the famed Roe v. Wade decision ill-reasoned. These statements are very important because the court is at its most powerful when setting the social policy of the country...