Indiana senate candidate Richard Murdock

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Riot

Completely false. Mourdocks very views have already been included in multiple bills passed by your current House of Representatives (that abortion in case of rape is not allowed).

Go count how many anti-abortion bills your current House has already passed. The assault on women's rights is no joke.

Those bills have fortunately not been passed by the Senate. If they had been - or ever are - they would/will go to the president for signing. President Romney would sign them. President Obama would not, and send them back, where the Senate and House could override his veto.

Depending upon the November 6 election results, women could lose the right to abortion in case of rape via federal law within months.

This is no joke. These religious loons are dead serious on taking women's rights to abortion away. The current Tea Party House has actively tried for two years nonstop passing multiple, multiple anti-abortion bills. Mourdock is running for elective office, where he has 100% chance of implementing his religious zealot views into law.

I have heard people talk about the possibility of Roe v Wade being overturned. I don't think it will happen. If Romney wins and he gets to put two people on the Supreme Court, and he puts a couple of really conservative judges on the Court who are pro-life, then Roe v Wade could be overturned. I think it is unlikely that will happen but it is possible.

If that happens, then as I have discussed before, abortion may be banned in a few of the really conservative states. It will be up to those state legislatures. It could happen. Some of the really conservative states could ban abortion. That is the worse-case scenario.

I have never heard anyone come up with the scenario you have mentioned. There is no way in hell that the US Senate is going to make a federal law outlawing abortion. There is no way that is going to happen. There is not a 1% chance of that happening and you know it. Even if the Republicans got control of the Senate, it would never happen. First of all, not all Republican senators are pro-life. Wouldn't they need 60 votes to do it? It's not going to happen.

They don't have the will of the people. People would be up in arms in states like California, New York and probably at least 65% of the country. It is not going to happen.

In addition, the Congress cannot do anything to make abortion illegal until the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade.