On 10/17/2011 12:19, Warp wrote:
> why they don't simply make it illegal, period?

They tried. The supreme court decided that abortions in the first 3 months 
are so are the private business of the woman and her doctor, so you can't 
make a federal law against it. (That's the whole "Roe vs Wade" court case.)

Changing that federal law would take some 66% of the senators and 75% of the 
states agreeing to it.

> federal law that they cannot override or something?)

Yes. Read about "Roe vs Wade", which is the court case that most broadly 
covers this particular topic.

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