dcs, how did you get to become such an optimist?
Are you being sarcastic? ;-) Anyway, I think it's necessary for Catholics living in these times to distinguish the theological virtue of hope from what most people today think of as "hope": optimism. I hope that Roe and Doe are reversed in short order, but I am not optimistic that they will be.

dcs, how did you get to become such an optimist?

Roe & Doe are doomed.
Of course they are eventually doomed, but I don't think they're doomed in the near future. I believe the current administration is quite happy with the status quo.

What would it take to get a (federal) constitutional amendment that acknowledges the right to life from the moment of conception? A 2/3 majority in Senate?
I believe it must be proposed by a 2/3 majority in the House, then ratified by 3/4 of the States -- 38 of them in this case. But it won't happen.

What would it take to get a (federal) constitutional amendment that acknowledges the right to life from the moment of conception? A 2/3 majority in Senate?
Isn't the "right to life, liberty and the pursuit of hapiness" already in your constitution? Wouldn't it just take a good Supreme Court to interpret that correctly as meaning a right to life from the moment of conception?
If it just goes back to the states, then I guess your looking at another 500 years of abortion in California :_(
In the year 2525...

Roe & Doe are doomed. Only idealogues believe otherwise. But short of a miraculous intervention (to which I am entirely open), the "reversal" of Roe & Doe will effectively leave this kind of homicide to state legislation--as virtually all other homicide matters are currently left. Fifteen states will immediately outlaw abortion, ten will enshrine it in state law, and the rest will fight it out with various degrees of compromise (albeit usually illogical). What pro-lifers need to think about is how to handle that situation.