ScrappleFace: Court Rules It's Too Late to Review Abortion Case

Court Rules It's Too Late to Review Abortion Case
by Scott Ott

(2003-06-20) -- A Federal Court in Texas ruled today that it's too late to review the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.

"This court reserves the right to choose which cases it will accept and which ones it will reject," Judge David Godbey wrote in the ruling. "The Federal District Court in Dallas is our judicial body, and we will make those choices ourselves."

The court, in choosing not to hear Norma McCorvey's request to overturn the abortion ruling, said "you can vacate a court decision in the early weeks or months, but after a certain point it takes on a life of its own and becomes established law."

The court refused, however, to weigh in on the question of exactly when a ruling becomes law. But many legal scholars agree that it's some time during the first trimester after the decision is conceived by the Supreme Court.

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#! !!!!!

I can't believe it!

WoooHooo

Posted by: shyanne at June 20, 2003 04:43 PM

second?

I can't think of much to say about this one, but it sure is funny.

Posted by: Ken Stein at June 20, 2003 04:51 PM

Oh, and it looks like the clock is somewhere between 12 and 14 minutes ahead of EST, too. Does Scott live on a boat between the East Coast and Bermuda?

Posted by: Ken Stein at June 20, 2003 04:53 PM

That's brilliant. I love legal humor . . .

Posted by: Sharkman at June 20, 2003 05:27 PM

Okay...it has been thirty years. Is that a long enough trimester? Inquiring minds....

Posted by: Cricket at June 20, 2003 10:52 PM

Wow, that was brilliant. I'm still laughing.
Thanks.

Posted by: Ross at June 20, 2003 11:17 PM

OK, so it's too late to vacate the decision but can she at least have the abortion that she never got all those years ago? Or maybe they should ask her son first.

Posted by: Ross at June 20, 2003 11:21 PM

Brilliant, maybe the best one ever. Keep it up.

Posted by: Jason at June 20, 2003 11:48 PM

HA HA! How very clever!

Great work Scot.

Posted by: Woodstock Willie at June 21, 2003 09:58 AM

Wow! Thanks to your most excellent article, I have just completely changed by mind on the abortion issue. I have decided that not only should it be completely legal, but that we should also include post-third trimester abortions, and start by aborting all the judges on the Federal Court in Texas, beginning with the Honorable David Godbey.

Posted by: Deb at June 21, 2003 05:07 PM

Nyuk...Nyuk...Nyuk...and Kudos to boot.

HA...Ha....Ha... Side Splitting.

Whoops I think I just gave myself a colostomy...
Chuckle,...snicker..guffaw.

Posted by: Dr. Harden Stuhl at June 23, 2003 01:52 AM

Yes, 30 years after the fact is a bit late to review the case.
Gee, why don't we review Brown v. Board of Education, or maybe Madison v. Marbury.

Posted by: some random guy at June 23, 2003 09:49 AM

Conservatives want more babies and fewer systems to take care of them. "We just like to watch them suffer, you know, out side the womb. It makes you gladder to be white and-at least-middle class," said Johana Crimley a long time abortion protester and collector of limited edition cupie dolls. "And the white ones useually get adopted- as long as nothing is wrong with them. I mean they have waiting lists!"

When asked about the systemic poverty, hunger, and inability to take care of the current population of youth in the world, she replied, "That's a liberal media myth perpetrated by the New York Times!"

Posted by: bloggermcbloggums at June 25, 2003 01:59 AM

Sounds like a Jay & Silent Bob rap.

Posted by: some random guy at June 25, 2003 09:14 AM

Too late! It can't be too late. I want my baby back baby back baby back...

Posted by: Big Time Sublime at June 27, 2003 12:53 PM