Justice Scalia: Abortion Not Prohibited in Constitution

WASHINGTON — The Constitution doesn't prohibit abortion any more than it allows it, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says in a television news interview to be broadcast Sunday.

Scalia told CBS News' "60 Minutes" that he may be conservative, but he is not biased on issues that come before the court. "I mean, I confess to being a social conservative, but it does not affect my views on cases," Scalia said in excerpts released Thursday.

"On the abortion thing, for example, if indeed I were ... trying to impose my own views, I would not only be opposed to Roe versus Wade, I would be in favor of the opposite view, which the anti-abortion people would like to see adopted, which is to interpret the Constitution to mean that a state must prohibit abortion," Scalia told correspondent Lesley Stahl.


"And you're against that?" Stahl asked.

Scalia replied, "Of course. There's nothing" (in the Constitution to support that view).

The interview is tied to the publication on Monday of a new book, "Making Your Case: the Art of Persuading Judges," that Scalia, 72, wrote with legal writing expert Bryan Garner.

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Well..I'm glad that Scalia has "clarified" his position..

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I think it wasn't specified in the constitution for the same reason putting a strip tease joint next to a church wasn't included. People just never thought it would be an issue (if they thought about it at all).
So he is skirting around interpretation of when life begins or viability.

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Oh, man, that is the funniest thing I have EVER heard that man say.

Woooo... deep breath.





Nope, still hilarious.

It was something undreamed of at the time --that anyone would ever want to make such a taboo practice something that was protected or not under any code.

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If a certain course of action makes the mouth-breathers furious, then that’s a good policy. – The Practical Environmentalist

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Right now America spends $700 billion every year on foreign oil. That's our money going overseas when it could be staying here. We have to stop this.
That's why I support the Pickens Plan. Check out the website at www.pickensplan.com. If you like what you see, please join me as a Pickens Plan supporter.

If a certain course of action makes the mouth-breathers furious, then that’s a good policy. – The Practical Environmentalist

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They also studied the Greeks but did they ever think of one man one vote? Thomas Jefferson did, but John Adams was appalled by it. Earlier western civilizations were on the verge of female suffrage, but no one foresaw that either. ALso there was a host of homosexual activity and heterosexual sleeping around in classic Rome. They surely knew of this, yet didn't make a mention of it either. Possibly because they were also well grounded in the bible which was the basis (along with the Magna Carta) of the first charter to cover the Mayflower bunch.

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