Comments on: You think you know Roe?

By: kate

kate — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:27:39 +0000

“It’s true that every last right we have is enumerated in great detail in the Bill of Rights, which is actually 50,423 pages long and explicitly states that if it’s not in there, you ain’t got a right to it. This is why the Supreme Court has to make up work for itself; everything is so clearly written out that there is no need for a court devoted entirely to Constitutional matters.”

Beautifully said. I intend to paraphrase as I must and use it against every one of the nine million times this “rights” meme comes up among the brainwashed that I must associate with.

What disturbs me most about these people is that they wear the mantle of High Ethics and Morals and yet have absolutely no problem lying to people and taking advantage of their ignorance in the most malicious, legal ways possible. It is vile.

By: Thene

Thene — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:39:07 +0000

I got 11/12. And I think that the stupid quiz highlights the underlying stupid of letting a vital bedrock of civilised society (which is what legal abortion is) rest on case law alone. But hey, it’s not my country. Until I move there. In January. Shit. :/

By: Kyso Kisaen

Kyso Kisaen — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:49:40 +0000

Sure, those are the right answers to those who wrote the quiz, but unfortunately for them reality has a well-known liberal bias.

By: junk science

junk science — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:34:25 +0000

Additional answers to question 13:

Women won’t be having abortions at all, because they won’t be corrupted by evil liberal brainwashers who hate God and babies
Women will forget that abortion ever existed and decide they’d rather stay home serving their husbands instead of competing with men for jobs, America will become a Christian nation once more, and Jesus will finally show up at my house for beers

By: jfpbookworm

jfpbookworm — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:05:30 +0000

12) Under Roe, which of these are allowed to perform abortions?
Licensed physician
Nurse practitioner
Resident assistant
Registered nurse
All of the above

This question and its “answer” make no sense. Their answer is “all of the above” because “Roe does not specify who can or cannot perform abortions.” However, from the decision itself:

The State may define the term “physician,” … to mean only a physician currently licensed by the State, and may proscribe any abortion by a person who is not a physician as so defined.

So no, Roe doesn’t directly prohibit a nurse from performing the procedure, in the same way it doesn’t permit a lawyer from performing an appendectomy.

By: Cat

Cat — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:16:28 +0000

Those clever bastards. I was seriously thinking that it was a relatively unbiased quiz until the last page, where they ask if you want to be put on mailing lists for the most vile and hateful fundie Christian organizations like Focus on the Family and CWA. The profiling questions they ask should’ve tipped me off though: they’re going to use this “study” to bawl about how all college educated librul atheists are baby murderers. Or something.

By: Cat

Cat — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:02:15 +0000

“9) Which of our nation’s founding documents contains the phrase “right to an abortion”?”

Must be the same one that contains the phrase “America is a Christian nation, founded upon Christian principles,” or “flag-burning is forbidden,” or “torture is okay, as long as citizens never know about it.”