Pro-Choice Students to Thank Roe v Wade Attorney Sarah Weddington

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Pro-Choice Students to Thank Roe v Wade Attorney Sarah Weddington at Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Anniversary Event

10/16/03 1:12:00 PM

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To: National Desk

Contact: Marjorie Signer of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, 202-628-7700 ext. 12 or info@rcrc.org

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- An Oklahoma high school student and a Grinnell (Iowa) College freshman who wrote winning essays about abortion rights will personally express their gratitude to famed Roe v. Wade attorney Sarah Weddington at a Washington DC dinner Thursday, October 23. The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice is holding the dinner to observe its 30th anniversary year. The essays are in the form of letters to Weddington and were submitted for an essay contest sponsored by the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and its youth and young adult program, Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom (http://www.rcrc.org)

A third winner, a College of Wooster (Ohio) freshman and son of a Presbyterian minister, is unable to attend the dinner because of a prior commitment

The winners are:

Rebecca Sumner, age 17, from Shawnee, Oklahoma, who is first in her high school class of 256. Sumner wrote: "I live in the buckle of the Bible Belt and, as a result, am constantly reminded that abortion is a sin. However, I believe it is a matter between a woman and her God, not to be legislated by any government...While others in this region may attempt to undermine the Supreme Court's decision and your heroic efforts, you may count on my unreserved support."

Benjamin Cantor-Stone, age 18, from Houston, Texas, a first-year student at Grinnell studying American theater, British history, archaeology/anthropology and geology. Cantor-Stone wrote about a difficult family medical situation in which extensive fertility treatments resulted in a pregnancy with three fetuses: "...a clinical abortion was done to increase the likelihood that the pregnancy would result in two live births. However, those who oppose abortion rights would not have cared why the abortion was needed, whether to preserve life or to end disease...abortion rights preserve mature, thinking life in every sense of the word."

Douglas Buchanan, age 19, a freshman at the College of Wooster, whose father, a Presbyterian minister, and mother are actively pro-choice. Buchanan wrote about the radical group Operation Rescue storming the sanctuary at his church and marching outside his home in Texas when he was a child: "...The so-called 'Religious Right' in all their Bible-quoting and sign-waving have forgotten the once fundamental fact that has governed human history from the much-debated Fall of Lucifer and Humankind to Bush's decision to go to war: free will."

[Paul Atreides]

However, I believe it is a matter between a woman and her God,

What, no goddess?

Benjamin Cantor-Stone, age 18....Douglas Buchanan, age 19....

What a pair of girls.

[Bogey78O]

You know for all the flack anti-abortion activists get, the left likes to turn it into a religious debate as much as the supposed "religious whackos".

[zipper]

Seems to me anyone born after 1973 should be thanking God the bullet missed them, rather than thanking some judge that helped put the bullet in the gun.

A more appropriate essay would have been an apologetic one to the classmates of theirs that didn't make it; that ended up in the biowaste dump because someone "chose" to terminate their citizenship. That's 20 million fewer taxpayers and counting.

[swilhelm73]

I'm sure that Norma McCorvey of Roe fame will be there too, right? Perhaps they can let her speak about the "wonders" of legalized infanticide that Roe v Wade unleashed.

[Paul Atreides]

Didn't they ditch her, once they achieved their goal?

[Sgt_Schultze]

Norma McCorvey is pro life.

[Bogey78O]

She ditched them.

She has since renounced the decision, become a born again Christian, and has demanded the USSC re-open the case.

[JohnEBoy]

"I believe it is a matter between a woman and her God, not to be legislated by any government."

Right. Instead it should be legislated by your friendly, neighborhood Supreme Court. 5-4.

By the way, God has had a lot to say about killing innocents ... nothing said in the Bible would ever be hard to discern in this area. The Bible always comes down on the side of protecting innocent children.

[hocndoc]

I'm praying for the Lord to change the hearts and minds of these girls and the lawyer, too.

I know He works miracles. And what a witness they would be.

[hocndoc]

Mrs. McCovey is working hard to turn over Roe v. Wade, along with the Justice Foundation in San Antonio, Texas.

http://www.txjf.org/index.html

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - Murder, Inc., ALERT

[Paul Atreides]

I knew that she had since become pro-life, but I think I once heard her make the statement that, once the feminazis got what they wanted, they couldn't have cared less about her or what happened in her life.

[Paul Atreides]

I can just hear those little twits, on Judgement Day, trying to argue with God that they didn't want any sort of restrictions on their if-it-feels-good-do-it lifestyles, so they decided to murder an innocent in order to maintain those lifestyles.