Re: April 6 Charles Krauthammer column.
Political commentator Charles Krauthammer is apparently unaware of how the balance of power is actually enumerated in the Constitution. He tells us that there have been nearly 50 years of demonstrations against abortion because “the ballot box is not available.” And that once the court has spoken the question is “supposedly settled for all time.”
In the first instance, if there is enough opposition to a Supreme Court ruling, the Constitution can be amended. The Republican Party could propose an amendment outlawing abortion in America. But it would never pass and if it did the only thing that it would accomplish would be to push abortion across the nation’s borders for the wealthy and into the back alley for the poor.
In the second case, the court has fully or partially reversed its previous precedents in more than 100 cases. It seems that the justices are not as hidebound to the decisions of their predecessors as Krauthammer would have us believe.
Guy Wroble, Denver
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