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FROM THE PRESIDENT; IT'S GOING TO TAKE EVERYBODY'S HELP.
I want all of you, our members and friends, to have a clear view of what we are facing.
What is ahead is a much tougher struggle than the elections of 2004. In the past, some pro-lifers made the faulty assumption that election victories would almost automatically transform themselves into new pro-life laws and policy changes. By now, it should be clear to everyone that it is not so.
To change law is always difficult.
First, a law that gives "rights"--no matter how questionable--is hard to repeal because people are reluctant to take "rights" away. It's hard, but it can be ddone.
Second, and more importantly, our Founding Fathers didn't want government to be able just to wave a wand and change the lives of millions of people. They wanted deliberation. And deliberation is what they--and we--got. Look at how pro-abortionists in Congress exploited the process of legislative deliberation to stall passage of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. The Senate couldn't muster the votes to override two vetoes by Bill Clinton.
The third, and most difficult, obstacle to legislative change arises in the case of Supreme Court-imposed law--law that was never subject to legislative deliberation. What our Founding fathers did not anticipate was an arrogant Supremee Court "waving the wand" and "legislating" massive social change "from the bench"--as it did in Roe v. Wade--inventing the "right" to abortion-on-demand through the entire nine months of pregnancy. Overriding Court-imposed law requires us either to persuade the Court to reverse itself or to pass a Constitutional amendment correcting the Court's arrogance.
The men and women making up the current pro-abortion majority on the Court are not stupid. They know that there is no Constitutional "right" to abortion on demand. They know that this "right" is an invention of the Court. They know that a law as radical as Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton would never pass Congress--not in 1973, not in 2005. But they want to impose their will on us--as they made perfectly clear in the Casey decision, wherre they demanded that we stop questioning the Court's decision. Thus, they don't want to be swayed by any argument, old or new, that Roe and Doe must be reversed.
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Source: HighBeam Research, FROM THE PRESIDENT; IT'S GOING TO TAKE EVERYBODY'S HELP.