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Now, I did a little bit of digging, and here's what I came up with. According to our president: Obama Statement on 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Decision =========="Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, it's never been more important to protect a woman's right to choose. Last year, the Supreme Court decided by a vote of 5-4 to uphold the Federal Abortion Ban, and in doing so undermined an important principle of Roe v. Wade: that we must always protect women's health. With one more vacancy on the Supreme Court, we could be looking at...

Catholic League president Bill Donohue says U.S. Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs to explain her recent comment on abortion and eugenics: Excerpts of a New York Times Magazine interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which will appear on July 12, include the following quote by the Supreme Court Justice about the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion: “Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.” By contrast, consider what Margaret Sanger, the founder of...

In an astonishing admission, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she was under the impression that legalizing abortion with the 1973 Roe. v. Wade case would eliminate undesirable members of the populace, or as she put it "populations that we don't want to have too many of." Question: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women? Ginsburg: Yes, the ruling about that surprised...

by Tina Grazier When the everyday practice of abortion ends I think it will have happened because women, not legislators or the courts, choose to end it as a matter of conscience. I've believed this for a long time. It's the only outcome that makes any sense when you consider that women are naturally the givers of life, that women are nurturers at heart and that it was women who demanded the "right" to abort through Roe v. Wade.We have spent the years since Roe v Wade stuck in a fight. Something that once made us a sisterhood now...

WASHINGTON – GOP national chairman Michael Steele said Thursday that he's opposed to abortion and that Roe v. Wade should be repealed, commenting a day after a magazine quoted him as saying abortion was "an individual choice." Steele clarified his stance in a written statement after online publication of the interview with GQ magazine. Steele, who is adopted, said in the interview that his mother had the option of getting an abortion or giving birth. He said: "You can choose life, or you can choose abortion." He said his mother chose life. Asked whether he thought women had the right...

...After a brief slide show featuring Bush and other anti-abortion politicians, during which the crowd booed and hissed, Judd remarked, “It’s so nice to live in America again.”...

WASHINGTON – "22 Weeks" has the images and sound effects of a horror flick, but it isn't one. Instead, it's based on a true account of a woman who sought a late-term abortion but found herself living a nightmare. In the 25-minute featurette, Angela, played by Natalie Wenninger, wakes up in her motel room covered in blood. She rushes to the clinic where she had been injected with a needle the day before to abort her baby 22 weeks into her pregnancy. She’s bleeding profusely and is having contractions but is left alone in a dirty room at the clinic....

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "Our faith requires us to oppose abortion on demand and to provide help to mothers facing challenging pregnancies," Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia and Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., said in an Oct. 21 statement. The bishops urged Catholics to study the teaching of the Church, rather than rely on statements and materials from outside groups and individuals. [[BishopMurphy102308.jpg]]Cardinal Rigali and Bishop Murphy made the joint statement in response to arguments that the Church should accept the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision on abortion as a "permanent fixture of constitutional law" and should concede...

This past Tuesday marked the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Since that fateful decision, over 48.5 million children have perished at the hands of abortionists. One out of every four children conceived in America will be killed by an abortionist. In 2003 alone, more children died from abortion than the total number of Americans who died in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and Gulf War combined. Two-thirds of all abortions are performed on single women. Statistically, the womb has become the most dangerous place in America. This war against...

In January of 1973, the abortion debate became a centerpiece in American political campaigns for many years to come. The landmark ruling of the Supreme Court in Roe vs. Wade has sparked more debate and controversy than any other political issue over the ensuing 35 years. The Court in it’s decision not only gave women the “right to choose”, but also declared themselves part of the legislative branch of government by making laws and superseding the rights and powers of the individual states. January 22 marked the 35-year anniversary of the decision and activists from both sides of the debate...

The next U.S. president could reshape the Supreme Court, where the two oldest members are liberals and volatile decisions like abortion now hinge on a single swing vote. The possible sea change has already surfaced 18 months before the November 2008 election and could develop into a major campaign issue for Democrats who want to move the court to the left and Republicans who hope to plant it firmly in the conservative camp. The U.S. high court is now evenly split between conservative and liberal justices, who have been divided by 5-4 votes on abortion rights, the death penalty and...

As the plaintiff in that infamous Supreme Court case Roe vs. Wade, my life has been inextricably tied to the abortion issue. I once told a reporter, "This issue is the only thing I live for. I live, eat, breathe, think everything about abortion." Thirty-four years later, I am 100% pro-life. The Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the federal ban on partial-birth abortion is the first step in overturning Roe vs. Wade. Banning the procedure - an act of infanticide where a scissors is jammed into the base of the infant's skull, a tube inserted and its brain sucked...

"Democrats For Life of America applauds the Supreme Court for the landmark ruling that upheld the ban on partial birth abortion. The decision closes the book on partial birth abortions in America and finally puts this deplorable procedure in the history books where it belongs. That said, we are of the opinion that just banning partial birth abortions does not do enough to prevent abortion in America. That's why we are proud to be leading the fight to reduce the abortion rate in America by 95 percent over the next 10 years by endorsing the 'Pregnant Woman Support Act'. This...

[JURIST] The North Dakota Legislative Assembly [official website] passed a bill [PDF text] Monday prohibiting abortion [JURIST news archive] in the state if the US Supreme Court [official website] ever declares that such a move would be constitutional. The measure, which Governor John Hoeven [official website] is expected to sign, passed the state House 68-24 and the Senate 29-16. In the event that the US Supreme Court overturns the 1973 Roe v. Wade [LII backgrounder; opinion] decision, the bill would subject anyone performing an abortion to a prison sentence of up to 5 years, a $5,000 fine, or possibly both....

Often a speech is significant for what it leaves out. In his State of the Union address, President Bush never mentioned the word "abortion," even though the 34th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision was only days away. What a relief. For many years, the abortion issue has taken up far more time and energy than it deserves. And the blame rests with the purists on both sides, who have insisted on establishing litmus tests for political candidates and judicial nominees that one, highly polarizing issue. We understand their sincerity. For those who believe that abortion is murder, there's...

Every year since 1973, millions of Americans have paused to remember the day when new words entered the American vocabulary. Words fraught with ambiguity, like "the right of personal privacy". Euphemisms, like "terminate one's pregnancy." Obscure phrases, like "the penumbras of the Bill of Rights." January after January we take time to remember these words, and the carnage they have caused. In an act of breathtaking judicial arrogance, the Supreme Court of the United States on January 23, 1973, "discovered" a right to abortion in the Constitution which had, theretofore, been overlooked by lawyers, judges and scholars for almost 200...

Europe's abortion rules AUSTRIA Availability: On request Gestational limit: First three months - in practice often before 12 weeks Conditions: Must have medical consultation. May be performed after 12 weeks if necessary to avoid serious danger to the woman's physical or mental health; if the child is at risk of being born with a serious physical or mental defect; or if the woman is under 14 years of age. In practice, the ability of a woman to pay for an abortion is an important factor. It is difficult for women to get an abortion outside Vienna and other big...

Abortion 101 at Yale By Michelle Malkin   ·   January 25, 2007 06:25 AM Dawn Eden reports that Yale medical students are celebrating "Roe v. Wade week" by holding a seminar, open to non-medical students, on how to perform abortions. --- Yale 'Roe vs. Wade Week' teaches non-medical students how to make a baby go (Whiffen)poof Good morning! I'm exhausted after taking two trains and a cab back from New Haven, so I'll leave it to Stephen of  For God, for Country, and for Yale to offer details (and, I hope, photos) of my Theology on Tap talk. I can tell...

The aftermath of legalized abortionChuck Norris On Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court decided (via Roe v. Wade) existing laws against abortion (at both federal and state levels) violated a constitutional right to privacy and due process under the Fourteenth Amendment. As a result all national laws prohibiting or limiting abortion were reverted. The primacy of a woman's rights prevailed and the rights of the unborn were not only abandoned, but their nature legally reduced to nonhuman. A history of justificationsBoth Justices Byron White and William Rehnquist strongly dissented the 7-2 majority decision on that winter day 34 years...

Last week Myrna Blyth wrote that Hillary Clinton is essentially facing the Second Coming of Bill Clinton in Barack Obama — it’s “Clinton vs. Clinton” in some sense. That hit home this week as I was flipping through Barack Obama’s #1 New York Times bestseller, The Audacity of Hope. In one section, Senator Obama makes mention of a Time magazine essay he was commissioned to write in a special issue on Lincoln. In it — a speech he adapted quickly, he tells us — he wrote: “In Lincoln’s rise from poverty, his ultimate mastery of language and law, his capacity...

Hundreds of abortion rights supporters were expected this afternoon at a Capitol rally. Gov. Jennifer Granholm was to address the group as part of the Michigan March for Choice Day of Action. "Her message is that extreme legislative measures that seek to overturn Roe v. Wade will not happen on her watch," spokeswoman Liz Boyd said. The rally begins at 3:30 p.m. Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, also was scheduled to speak. The event comes the day before Right to Life of Michigan holds its annual legislative day in Lansing. A large majority of state lawmakers oppose abortion....

Real men -- good men -- take responsibility for the children they father. If they get a woman pregnant, they do the right thing: They stand by her. They support their child. They don't try to weasel out of a situation they co-authored. They shoulder the obligations of fatherhood, even if they hadn't planned on becoming a father. Once upon a time, men confronted with news of an unintended pregnancy knew what was expected of them. More often than not, they married the woman who was carrying their child; for those tempted to behave irresponsibly, society devised the shotgun wedding....

This is one of those moments when you want to grab liberals by the lapels and demand, "Well, what did you expect?" A group called the National Center for Men has filed a lawsuit they are calling "Roe v. Wade for Men." Here are the facts: A 25-year-old computer programmer named Matt Dubay of Saginaw, Mich., was ordered by a judge to pay $500 per month in child support for a daughter he fathered with his ex-girlfriend. His contention -- and that of the National Center for Men -- is that this requirement is unconstitutional because it violates the equal...

State lawmakers voted Friday to ban nearly all abortions in South Dakota and sent the measure to the governor, who said he is inclined to sign it. Under the legislation, doctors in South Dakota would face up to five years in prison for performing an abortion unless it was necessary to save the woman's life. The bill directly targets Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. State lawmakers believe the nation's highest court is now more likely to reverse itself on the abortion issue because of the recent appointments of Justices John Roberts and Samuel...

A Polish woman who was refused an abortion despite warnings that having a baby could make her blind is taking her case to Europe's human rights court. Alicja Tysiac's eyesight worsened drastically after she had her third baby, and she fears she will go blind (...) The head of a group that is fighting to change Poland's abortion laws has told the BBC very few women are able to terminate their pregnancies. "The practice of the Polish abortion law is even stricter than the law itself," Wanda Nowiska from the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning said. "So in...

Some Kentucky lawmakers are trying to ban abortion, even though such a prohibition would probably conflict with federal law and the 1973 case, Roe vs. Wade, that gave the procedure its current legal status. Nearly 40 House members have tagged their names to the plan, sponsored by Rep. Addia Wuchner, R-Burlington. Wuchner acknowledged that if the General Assembly passed the ban, Kentucky would be at odds with the federal government. But it would "create a challenge" to federal law, Wuchner said. "That is how change begins, and it begins right here at the state level," she said. Under her plan,...

Ellen Ratner stated the new Democtat talking point on the confirmation of Judge Alito. The strident voice told us that if Roe was overturned, the Republican party was in deep trouble and out of power. Her threat was strongly stated

Of course, what I see as common sense will probably infuriate some who disagree. I have already disappointed and angered some of my conservative friends because, although I will work tirelessly to reverse Roe vs. Wade, I favor no restrictions on first-trimester abortion. Some see this as a contradictory position, but perhaps they do not realize what the Roe vs. Wade decision opened up in this country, nor do they really understand what was in store for many women before abortion became legal.

Abortion might be the single most divisive issue in America today judging by the recent Alito confirmation hearings, second only to the war effort in Iraq. That’s because both are the political campaign tools of choice for a beleaguered secular socialist Democratic Party currently struggling to regain any form of political power by any special interest opportunities available. The so-called pro-choice crowd has their polling data which of course suggests that most Americans support the notion of private choice on the matter. But the pro-life crowd has their set of polling results too, which of course indicate just the opposite....

To: National Desk Contact: Amaya Smith of the Democratic National Committee, Office of Communications, 202-863-8148 WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement recognizing the 33rd Anniversary of the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision: "The landmark Roe v. Wade decision served to ensure the personal freedoms and rights of women all over the country to make decisions about their own health care and reproductive rights. "As a physician and former Planned Parenthood board member, I understand that the decision to have an abortion is one of the most difficult a woman can...

Standing Between the Butcher and the Baby: A Criticism on the “legality” of Abortion and the Rights of the States to Interpose Themselves Between their Citizens and Federal “Law” by Scott T. Whiteman, Esq. Abort Abortion The pro-life movement estimates that 4000 children each day are either poisoned or butchered while still in the womb. That is, in the thirty years since Roe v. Wade, over 43 million children have been murdered and have received no protection from their civil governments. In these thirty years, reports indicate that the mood of the culture has changed, with teens being more likely...

The mainstream media tell us that the Supreme Court legalized abortion with its Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. The media also tell us that there is nothing we can do about it because Roe v. Wade is the “law of the land.”

While the US Senate is currently discussing Samuel Alito, George Bush’s pick for the Supreme Court, conservative European politicians are concerned about attempts by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to usurp legislative powers. Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel’s recent criticism of the ECJ, the European Union's top court, was backed on Wednesday by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Prime Minister of Denmark. Like Schüssel, Rasmussen wants the European Constitution to include an explicit restriction of the powers of the ECJ.

The issue of Roe vs. Wade vis-à-vis the Samuel Alito confirmation begs a telling question which I thought worthy of a vanity posting today. The question is simply this "If so many of our leaders specifically stipulate Roe vs. Wade as the litmus test for suitability to the Supreme Court, then doesn't that indicate that this specific law is, for them, the most important law of the land?" If this were not the case, then these leaders would be preoccupied with Alito's positions on any number of other important questions. Were a fetus a living human being, then I could...

As far as anyone yet knows, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. has not made any public declaration calling for the overruling of Roe v. Wade , the 1973 Supreme Court decision that recognized a constitutional right to abortion. At least on the surface, Alito's record as an appeals court judge contains something for everyone. In 1991, he voted to uphold a Pennsylvania law that would have required married women to notify their husbands before getting an abortion. In 1995, however, he cast a deciding vote on a three-judge panel to strike down what abortion rights advocates saw as Pennsylvania's onerous...

The White House decided to employ a politically-palatable, pundit-prescribed exit strategy with the withdrawal of Harriet Miers. Because of that, Miss Miers is no longer a nominee to the United States Supreme Court, and much of America may believe the Bush Administration's contention that she withdrew over a request for documents. In actuality, she withdrew because her 1993 pro-abortion speech came to light, and that was the straw that broke the camel's back for the great Dr. James Dobson, Senator Sam Brownback, Senator John Thune, and any members of the conservative base who had reserved judgment up to that point....

In an undated speech given in the spring of 1993 to the Executive Women of Dallas, Miers appeared to offer a libertarian view of several topics in which the law and religious beliefs were colliding in court. "The ongoing debate continues surrounding the attempt to once again criminalize abortions or to once and for all guarantee the freedom of the individual women's [sic] right to decide for herself whether she will have an abortion," Miers said. Those seeking to resolve such disputes would do well to remember that "we gave up" a long time ago on "legislating religion or morality,"...

Two days after President Bush announced Harriet Miers's Supreme Court nomination, James Dobson of Focus on the Family raised some eyebrows by declaring on his radio program: "When you know some of the things that I know--that I probably shouldn't know--you will understand why I have said, with fear and trepidation, that I believe Harriet Miers will be a good justice." Mr. Dobson quelled the controversy by saying that Karl Rove, the White House's deputy chief of staff, had not given him assurances about how a Justice Miers would vote. "I would have loved to have known how Harriet Miers...

'Roe' of Roe vs. Wade addresses pro-life event for L.A. Hispanics Norma McCorvey, the 'Roe' of the Roe vs. Wade 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, addressed an audience at Resurrection Church in East L.A. Oct. 8. By Paula Doyle 10/14/2005 OS ANGELES (CNS) -- More than 100 parishioners from a dozen East Los Angeles parishes turned out Oct. 8 at Resurrection Church for a Spanish-language respect life program featuring Norma McCorvey, the "Roe" of the Roe vs. Wade 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. "I think the archdiocese (of Los Angeles) is trying to light a spark in...

After the conference, it looked as if there was a 5-4 opinion to uphold the statute in its entirety, which would have effectively gutted Roe. Thus, on April 24, 1992, it appeared to the Justices that Roe v. Wade would finally be overruled.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday opposed John Roberts' nomination to be U.S. Supreme Court chief justice, making him the first noted Republican to break with the Bush administration over who should lead America's top court. Bloomberg, a former Democrat seeking re-election in a heavily Democratic city, said Roberts had failed to show a commitment to upholding the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision establishing a right to abortion. "I am unconvinced that Judge Roberts accepts the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling as settled law," Bloomberg said. Roberts' answers to questions in Senate confirmation...

Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter who is the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee has signaled he plans to ask Judge John Roberts some tough questions about his juridical philosophy according to the Washington Post. The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman warned Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. yesterday to expect tough questions about the court's "judicial activism" and lack of respect for Congress. The comments mark the second time this month that Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has signaled plans to use Roberts's confirmation hearing as a forum for sharply criticizing what Specter describes as the high court's tendency to denigrate...

This is the story of two once fast friends who became distant and how, serving as U.S. Supreme Court justices, they affected legal policy. Warren Burger and Harry Blackmun were reared six blocks apart in the Dayton's Bluff section of St. Paul, a blue-collar neighborhood that has seen better days -- a neighborhood I used to pass often on the way to work. They met in kindergarten, went to grade school and Sunday school together, played softball and tennis (Burger was the better athlete), double-dated (Burger was the handsomer of the two) and went to their high school proms together....

The National Organization for Women recently posted an Emergency Alert with the headline, "Bush Picks Anti-Roe Nominee ... Women's Lives on the Line." In the alert, NOW posted photos of four women it said "are the faces of women who died because they could not obtain safe and legal abortions," the false threat being that a Supreme Court reversal of Roe will result in unsafe and illegal abortions and ultimately women's deaths. It's interesting that this emergency alert about "safe" abortions comes from a group that fights abortion clinic safety regulations to the point that many mills have lower standards...

Washington DC – President George W. Bush has chosen John G. Roberts to succeed Sandra Day O’Connor to the US Supreme Court. Operation Rescue supports this selection. Roberts has shown strong conservative credentials with indications that he will not uphold Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that decriminalized abortion. Roberts coauthored a 1990 legal brief that stated, “The court’s conclusion in Roe that there is a fundamental right to an abortion … finds no support in the text, structure or history of the Constitution.” “A culture of life can never be built as long as Roe v. Wade is the...

Last autumn, in the midst of a presidential election, America's Democrats were fighting furiously to protect what they described as a constitutional right - to have an abortion. But in an extraordinary turn of events, some argue that it is the single issue standing in the way of their election prospects. They are daring to say what once was regarded as heresy - that it is time to let the argument go. Abortion may still be the most divisive issue in the US, but in a move indicative of creeping conservatism, Democrats now seem happy to amend - even relinquish...

As the Supreme Court embraced moderation, the conservative agenda stalled. Solicitor General Paul Clement says he's noticed a new trend in the wardrobe of Supreme Court advocates. More and more men who argue before the Court are wearing bow ties, a tribute to the trademark neckwear of Justice John Paul Stevens -- and to his power. Midway through the ninth decade of his life, Stevens reached the peak of his career in the Supreme Court term that ended Monday. With a strong assist from Justice Anthony Kennedy, Stevens, 85, was able to assemble majorities and write opinions that read like...

The U.S. Congress has the most potent power to effect a repeal of Roe v. Wade under Article Three, section two of the U.S. Constitution. That section grants to the Supreme Court powers of "appellate jurisdiction" over most federal cases, "with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make." "Congress has power to control the entire jurisdiction of the lower federal courts and the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court," University of Notre Dame Professor of Law Charles E. Rice explained to readers of THE NEW AMERICAN in 1989. "While Congress has not used this power since...

When Nancy Cruzan's feeding tube was disconnected, distraught nurses said, "Do carrots cry? Nancy cries." The same horrific death awaits Terri Schiavo. Is there a Schiavo connection to Roe vs. Wade?

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