John Roberts declared unequivocally that a right to privacy exists in the Constitution, a core demand of abortion rights supporters, in his first answers in a Senate hearing on his nomination as the 17th Chief Justice of the United States.
Under aggressive questioning by Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter, a moderate Pennsylvania Republican and strong abortion rights supporter, Roberts refused to answer whether he believed the landmark 1973 abortion case Roe v. Wade had been correctly decided.
But when asked if he believes the Constitution contains a right to privacy — which underlies Roe and other contentious issues including gay rights — Roberts answered, “I do.”
– http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/09/13/MNroberts13.DTL
John Roberts is doing a wonderful job; with God’s help he’ll be confirmed and the country will have an intelligent and humble chief justice. Democrats are focusing on the right to privacy, which while important, is not how Roe v. Wade will eventually be overturned. Roe v. Wade will fall on the right of embryos and fetus to live, by virtue of their humanity. It won’t happen in the next five years, and there are many other tasks (not least true feminism in respecting women and appreciating women for being women, instead of trying to transform them into would-be men by robbing them of their gift of fertility) that are necessary for its overturn to have a positive impact, but it is inevitable that such an inherently immoral and evil practice as abortion must be overturned in America.
Go John Roberts :) I have many qualms with President Bush, but if Roberts is confirmed, I will look far more kindly upon the second Bush presidency.