Abortion is Not a Legal Issue as Currently Defined

This whole Alito b/s could be avoided if like most things, the legislature made a clear law. The reason the supreme court, or any court for that matter, can be called "an activist judge" is because of vague or unclear laws. This brings the country to the topic of abortion. To my knowledge (the pineapple could be wrong), there is no law on the federal codex which forbids doctors from performing abortions. Thus, when the case came before the court originally, the justices ruled on the law and not on morals. The law doesn't state that its illegal therefore, it is legal. If the politicians want to make this such a hot button issue, pass a law then. They know they can't do this because it will literally split their supporters down the middle. They'd rather just throw names at judges who have the wonderful job of interpreting very grey laws. Same thing applies with gay marriage. How is a judge being an "activist" if he is allowing two people to have the same rights under the current laws as two other people? Thats the law, the judge is interpreting the law. Anyway, Alito.... This guy is clearly one of W's cronies and will make it to the Supreme Court. My feeling, when an abortion case comes before him ( you'll see how sure the pro-life movement is about this guy by how quickly a case comes before the supreme court (pineapple guesstimates 4-6 months)) he won't uphold the previous ruling which he basically said he'd do in his hearings. The images of him shaking pro-lifers hands outside of the confirmation hearings was evidence enough for me. Anyway, point, if the legislature were to just grow a spine and draft clean cut laws, we would never have heard the term "activist judges" and we wouldn't be worrying so much about Alito.