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Times Editorial: The Incredible Shrinking Elephant

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Cato5/04/2009 11:27:30 am PDT

On the abortion issue, Republicans should take the view that it should be left up to the states to decide simply because that is the way the Republic is constructed. We should be neither pro-choice nor pro-life on the federal level. We should be pro-constitution.

Roe v. Wade may or may not be good policy (I think it is good policy, but that is besides the point). But what it has come to stand for is unacceptable — unrestricted judicial fiat law. The courts must become “the least dangerous branch” again.