Talk about ill conceived…

A great many legal scholars have always regarded Roe as bad law and ungrounded in the Constitution. Even a great many liberal, ‘pro-choice’ legal scholars, and even some who sit on the high court now, or served it at the time Blackmun made it up as he went.

Take a look at what some of them have written.

Now, Justice Scalia is reminding us that the Supreme Court does not have the right to create abortion. Or….informing those who never realized that.

During a speech at Utah State University’s Taggart Student Center, where 1,700 people came to hear the respected judge tell it like it is, Scalia criticized those jurists who engage in what he called “abstract moralizing.”

In addition to faulty decisions like Roe v. Wade, Scalia said it results in a corrupt political process where citizens and politicians expect new judges to “rewrite” the U.S. Constitution and make policy decisions normally reserved for legislatures.

“These are social preferences that can only be handled in a political process,” he said.

According to a Salt Lake Tribune report, Scalia said the cure for the problem is for Americans to view the Constitution as a “static” document and support judges who won’t make up the law from the bench.

Scalia touted his “originalist” views whereby he says the Constitution has a fixed and knowable meaning established at the time of its drafting.

That applies to pro-life issues like abortion and assisted suicide, he explained.

“I’m questioning the sanity of having value-laden decisions being made by unelected judges,” he said. “Nothing I learned at Harvard or in my practice of law qualifies me to decide whether there is a right to abortion or to assisted suicide.”

Remember this in the November election.