ABORTION: A NATIONAL LITMUS TEST ...

... for service on any court? Nancy Benac, writing for AP, thinks so, as do many others.

For all the important legal issues facing the nation, somehow abortion and the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling always seem to elbow to the forefront of the debate over modern judicial nominations, just as in the 1950s the court's Brown v. Board of Education desegregation ruling reflected the most important social issue on the American landscape.

That's because Americans see abortion as murder, or at the least a very immoral procedure. It's both!

The same thought echoes from the right end of the political spectrum. Also, polls find that people believe no single issue before the court has greater importance. [...]

... abortion to many people is the pre-eminent moral issue of the times a matter of life and death. It also becomes a touchstone for broader questions about government intrusion into people's lives, judicial restraint and a host of social issues, almost a proxy for liberalism or conservatism in general.

Abortion is that issue which most defines our culture and America in general, the world is watching. Issues such as the GWOT are seen as transient, abortion transcends.

Abortion; Courts; Pro-choice; Pro-life; Roe v Wade; Sanctity of Life