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Comment author: lukeprog 16 August 2011 11:05:01PM 1 point [-]

the Supreme Court could use the "murder" rationale to reverse Roe, if it wanted to do so; and were the decision to be reconsidered in a new case, do you have any doubt that pro-life groups would file amicus briefs urging them to do just that?

Yes, I doubt they would do this, given the fact that I haven't found anyone yet who actually wants women who abort fetuses to be punished on a par with, shall we say, 'other kinds of murderers'; multiple decades of imprisonment, or life imprisonment, or death.

Comment author: Davorak 22 August 2011 09:05:49AM 0 points [-]

I have heard people talk of punishing abortion on par with other kinds of murder. This view point has the real potential to alienate people. It makes sense that people with that view point and realize this are not shouting it to the world or filing court cases. Instead they judge small changes are the best way to get what they want in the long term and fight those intermediary battles instead of taking it straight on.

Comment author: komponisto 16 August 2011 11:35:19PM 0 points [-]

Interesting. You may be right, at least about the most mainstream groups (though the fringe would also participate, surely).

I won't trouble you further on this, since I have an attack to fend off over in Discussion. :-)

Thanks for replying to me and others.

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