Question about supreme court, abortion, and Catholic church

[CatsDogsBabies]

Much of teh Catholic literature on formation of conscience as the basis for making voting decision is focused on the abortion issue. However, how much impact does the vote for president have on the legality of abortion? My understanding is that Roe v. Wade means that states cannot make abortion illegal. If there was no Roe v. Wade would that mean abortion would be illegal automatically or that states would decide? I think some people believe that a vote for someone like McCain is a direct route to ending legal abortion, but is this really the case? Don't misunderstand my post. I am just trying to get to the weaknesses of one issue voting in that it lets a person ignore many other issues and has no real impact on the issue in quesiton anyway.

[still_one]

1. It is more than that, it is the right to privacy. In the case of abortion, that right to privacy

is between a woman and her doctor, and it is only legal in the first trimester unless the life of the Mother is at stake

[napi21]

2. I'm not a lawyer, but as I understand it, if Roe were overturned,

the issue would revert back to the individual States the same as it used to be. There WERE a few States that OK'd abortions before Roe. I grew up in Pa. and women used to travel to NY for a legal abortion. Of course those who couldn't afford to do that had back alley abortions and many many died. The Catholic Chruch does advise it's members to vote against any candidate who approves of Choice, but they also preach that no Catholic should ever take BC pills or wear a condom, or any other BC method except the "Rythom Method". As far as I know, there aren't very many Catholics who still subscribe to such severe rules. Mostly the seniors in their flock.

[CatsDogsBabies]

3. It is true that the Church doesn't say to vote against any particular candidate

but it allows bishops to make decisions about whether or not pro-choice politicians should be allowed to receive communion. So int he event that a bishop used his authority to do this, I think that would be pretty close to telling your congregation who not to vote for.