Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Kevin Gowen Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Private for Raj Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 11:23:04 -0500 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2v70f8F2g4dpmU2@uni-berlin.de> References: <1099507564.292484.79620@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <2uuj22F2dv4skU2@uni-berlin.de> <4t7ko0t6rbkm4uu6qpev4v3q4ae2ad3f3m@4ax.com> <5ddko0ta25ks6agabl19af7sqg7qv655l7@4ax.com> <2v44hpF2f7qa8U13@uni-berlin.de> <7uopo0hdkec7c8ddlb8dulii84pbbm5qeo@4ax.com> <2v47siF2h5f68U4@uni-berlin.de> <418E3362.8050007@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de xgDqqGvve3dzaY3B69ZS1wd1WPLfuQjF83wPojNwlfoFsHoqch User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <418E3362.8050007@hotmail.com> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:21408 Declan Murphy wrote: > Kevin Gowen wrote: > >> The abortion question was a real loser for Kerry. He really squirmed >> trying to justify support for partial-birth abortion and opposition to >> parental notification. > > > My only interest in sepponia's recent poll was from an outsiders > perspective (commercial trade, defence alliances etc). Now that Bush has > a second term, and his party a majority in both reps and senate, I > assume partial-birth abortions will be banned. Well, he already had majorities in the House and Senate. Those majorities simply grew. As for partial-birth abortion, it was banned last year at the federal level, although the majority of states already had bans. > And all abortions too? Not likely. If _Roe v. Wade_, which was significantly eroded by _Casey_, were overturned tomorrow, abortion would remain legal just as it was before _Roe_. The only difference would be that states would have the option to ban it. -- Kevin "This is the best election night in history."--Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, Nov. 2, 2004, just before 8 p.m. EST