FROM THE PRESIDENT; MISREPRESENTING ROE vs WADE.(Editorial)

The following quotes exemplify duplicitous incompetence (in boldface):

In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that state laws which made it illegal to have an abortion up to three months of pregnancy were unconstitutional, and that the decision on whether a woman should have an abortion up to three months of pregnancy should be left to the woman and her doctor to decide. In general, do you favor or oppose this part of the U.S. Supreme Court decision making abortions up to three months of pregnancy legal?

--question used by the Harris poll from 1973 to at least 1998 (www.harrisinteractive.com/harris _poll)

The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision established a woman's constitutional right to have an abortion, at least in the first three months of pregnancy. Would you like to see the Supreme Court overturn its Roe v. Wade decision, or not?

--Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll question, 5/22-24/2002

The 1973 Supreme Court ruling called Roe v. Wade made abortion in the first three months of pregnancy legal. Do you think President Bush should nominate Supreme Court justices who would uphold the Roe v. Wade decision, or nominate justices who would overturn the Roe v. Wade decision?

--Associated Press-IPSOS poll question, 11/19-21/2004