RE: 'Roe v. Wade': The divided states of America

If it does, a fight that for three decades has focused on nine members of the Supreme Court would be waged instead among more than 7,000 legislators in 50 state capitals.

Which is the only place it properly belongs.

The result, according to this analysis, would be less a patchwork of laws than broad regional divisions that generally reinforce the nation's political split. All but three of the states likely to significantly restrict abortions voted for President Bush in 2004. All but four of the states likely to maintain access to abortion voted for Democrat John Kerry.

The "patchwork quilt of laws" argument is the one abortion apologists use most often to justify national control. Ironically enough, many of these same folks who are also homosexual marriage supporters, drop into a stance of "states' rights" on that issue.