On abortion, bad news for Dr. Dobson

Don't you think the premise of the piece is a little silly? Are we supposed to be shocked that McCain doesn't support every single word of his platform? No candidate is expected to support it word-for-word, only participate in the process and approve the final version. The platform also calls for a Federal Marriage Amendment, and McCain's been against that for years. No one claims he's "moving away from the platform" because of it. On the other side, Barack Obama has repeatly used the "abortion bad, personally opposed" formula. However, this year that was taken out of the Dem platform. Should we also write posts claiming that Obama is discretely moving away from his party's platform?

Aside from that, some of the individual points are real stretches. For example, the McCain quote cited on a Constitutional amendment was an answer to a question that was explicitly about what "would" happen if Roe were overturned. Since no one in their right mind believes that there are sufficient votes to pass an amendment right now, the correct answer is what McCain said. It would return to the states. How is that contradictory?

Also, the idea that the only legitimate argument for overturning Roe is that the constitution holds no right to privacy is silly. That is the argument used by Rehnquist and Scalia, and therefore the most common, but not the only one. Larry Tribe and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, hardly right-wingers, have criticized the jurisprudence of Roe. Neither one of them believes there is not right to privacy. John Roberts wrote a brief arguing for the overturn of Roe, but he's explicitly admitted a right to privacy under Griswold. Arguing that rejecting a single line of jurisprudence is tantamount to accepting Roe is foolish.

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In other words, "Your Name", "if you don't like murder - don't commit one"?