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Article Excerpt
The professional pro-life movement's plan for America is straightforward: replace the current pro-Roe Supreme Court majority with justices who will vote to overturn the 32-year-old precedent and return regulation to the states.
Sure, it's far-fetched, fanciful even. The confluence of events that would have to occur to achieve this outcome is, to say the least, formidable: Three pro-choice justices would have to retire or die and President Bush and his successor--whoever that might be--nominate, and the Senate confirm, judges who, presented with an on-point case, vote to overturn what even Bush appeals court nominee Miguel Estrada called" settled law."
A longer shot than Giacomo.
Still, the current state of play has been a boon to both the pro-life and pro-choice industries, whose cynical direct-mail appeals ("So much hangs in the balance") generate millions of dollars from grass-roots activists on each side of the abortion divide. It's a big business, exploited by both parties for political gain.
But even in the post-Roe world envisioned by the most fervent pro-life activists, there is no chance, zero,...
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