Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> 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.

  So instead they are trying to make it illegal de-facto, even though
*technically* it's still legal de-jure?

  Shouldn't there be a federal law against states trying to circumvent
federal laws?

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                                                          - Warp

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