Why wont the republicans admit that?

Question

the republican party and president failed them when it came to abortion. They only had the majority for six years, and guess what it wasn't banned.

Answer 1

to admit that would mean they would have to admit their thinking is flawed, and they cant do that.

I laugh when republicans bring up whether clinton or obama is against abortion, but yet the republicans in control the last six years have done nothing about it. do republincans like being used?

Answer 2

It's the Supreme Court not congress.

The U.S. Supreme Court term this year will require the justices to tackle the divisive subjects of abortion and race in school admissions. But the court will decide them without Sandra Day O'Connor, who cast the critical votes the last time they were before the court.

Among the most high profile cases are two challenges to the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. Though President Bush signed it into law, it was blocked by lower courts. They found its lack of an exception to protect a woman's health to be unconstitutional.

Congressional supporters of the ban said the law would stop late term abortions in which doctors partially deliver a fetus then collapse its skull. After examining medical evidence, they chose to provide no health exceptions, finding that the procedure was never medically necessary.

The Bush Administration is urging the court to uphold the ban, submitting a legal brief that says the law "simply eliminates a disfavored and rarely used late-term abortion procedure."

But women's groups say the ban is so vaguely worded that it would also restrict a commonly performed abortion procedure used during the second trimester of pregnancy, long before a fetus would be viable on its own.

"This is really an attack on one of the central principles of Roe v Wade, which is to protect women's health and to ensure that women can make choices about abortion procedures pre-viability," says Priscilla Smith of the Center for Reproductive Rights.

Six years ago, the court struck down a nearly identical ban, from Nebraska, by a 5-4 ruling -- with Justice O'Connor casting the deciding vote.

Racial diversity in public schools
The issue of race in education this term comes from an unusual quarter. While the court's previous rulings have dealt with college admissions, the latest cases involve public schools that use race in deciding whether students can attend the schools of their choice.

Answer 3

Smoke and mirrors really, they didn't want it banned or it would be. The Republicans have had the majority in Congress 4 years in the Clinton Administration plus these last 7 years. The President doesn't have the power to redirect Supreme Court Legislature, that is why the Government has three separate house's. Besides it is a State to State issue anyway.

Answer 4

Bottom line is that it cannot be banned.

That kind of freedom is only stripped from people that live in places like california.

While it is the choice of the mother to abourt the baby, there has to be a limit on when that can occur. You cant get pregnant and then decide 90 days into it you suddenly don't want it. I call that a wrongful death. When a woman finds out she is pregnant, she makes a decision. If she decides to keep it, then there should be no turning back. You live with the decision you make.

Answer 5

To ban abortion would not be in the best interests of the republicans. If they baned abortion they wouldn't have a political platform to stand and yell there bible thumping, anti-american views from. Organized religion should be banned, religion is based on faith, not a damn book written by people for people. The Bible is the single best selling fictional book in the history of books.

Answer 6

That's because lawmakers understand the Roe decision better than the average person walking down the street.

Most people think that Roe v. Wade legalized abortion. This is not true. Roe was a decision about the privacy of the average citizen from governmental intrustion into their private lives - especially as it pertains to medical procedures. In short, Roe prevents the government from denying your right to medical procedures.

People who know what they're talking about know that to overturn Roe is to grant the government permission to start either denying or forcing medical procedures on its citizens.

Pretty scary when you think about it like that, isn't it?

Answer 7

They need abortion to remain legal so they can raise money. It's a conservative Republican nightmare for the Supreme Court to actually overturn Roe - the public would suddenly awaken to the true threat against civil liberties represented by the religious right, and you won't see a Republican elected for a generation.

Answer 8

The republicans have failed to accomplish any of their goals as stated in the party platform (unless you count the useless war in Iraq) Now that the Democratic Party is the majority the President will find it very difficult to pass any legislation if any at all.

Answer 9

Good point. Like their failure to support Social Security reform, it exposed the GOP Congress as the craven re-election whores they'd become, and is part of the reason they were not reelected in November.

Perhaps if they'd continued the policies established by Newt Gingrich that won them Congress in 1994, they would still be in control. At least they would have had stronger conservative support.

Answer 10

They tried to ban a few things related to abortion, but didn't have a large enough majority to pass it into law. Plus you can't just overturn a law that was upheld by the Supreme Court. It's a little more comlicated than that.

Answer 11

The problem is that the abortion problem starts at the Supreme Court. In that respect, Bush has done his part in getting Roberts and Alito on the bench. Now is Ginsberg, Stevens, Souter or Bryer can just retire, We'll have what we need.