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NARAL Pro-Choice America: Judge John Roberts an Unsuitable Choice for Supreme Court Justice
NARAL Pro-Choice America ^
| July 20, 2005
Posted on 07/21/2005 12:07:22 AM PDT by RWR8189
Washington, DC NARAL Pro-Choice America, the nations leading advocate for personal privacy and a womans right to choose, has announced that it will oppose Judge John Roberts, President Bushs nominee for Supreme Court Justice, John Roberts, is a divisive nominee with a record of seeking to impose a political agenda on the courts, rather than a unifier Americans could trust to preserve our personal freedoms like the right to privacy and a woman's right to choose.
Americans deserve a nominee who respects this countrys culture of freedom and personal responsibility, and who understands the profound effect his decisions have on our everyday lives, said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. We are extremely disappointed that President Bush has chosen such a divisive nominee for the highest court in the nation, rather than a consensus nominee who would protect individual liberty and uphold Roe v. Wade. President Bush has consciously chosen the path of confrontation, and he should know that we, and the 65% of Americans who support Roe, are ready for the battle ahead.
Some of the lowlights of Judge Roberts background include:
- As Deputy Solicitor General, Roberts argued in a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court (in a case that did not implicate Roe v. Wade) that [w]e continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled
. [T]he Courts conclusion in Roe that there is a fundamental right to an abortion
finds no support in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution.
- In Rust v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court considered whether Department of Health and Human Services regulations limiting the ability of Title X recipients to engage in abortion-related activities violated various constitutional provisions. Roberts, appearing on behalf of HHS as Deputy Solicitor General, argued that this domestic gag rule did not violate constitutional protections.
- Roberts, again as Deputy Solicitor General, filed a friend of the court brief for the United States supporting Operation Rescue and six other individuals who routinely blocked access to reproductive health care clinics, arguing that the protesters behavior did not amount to discrimination against women even though only women could exercise the right to seek an abortion.
- The Court was so accustomed to the Solicitor General and the Deputy Solicitor General arguing for the overturn of Roe that during John Robertss oral argument before the Supreme Court in Bray, a Justice Asked, Mr. Roberts, in this case are you asking that Roe v. Wade be overruled? He responded, No, your honor, the issue doesnt even come up. To this the justice said, Well, that hasnt prevented the Solicitor General from taking that position in prior cases.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; americahaters; bush43; bushhaters; deathcultists; johnroberts; naral; prochoice; radicalleftists; rats; roberts; roe; roevwade; scotus; sorelosers
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To: RWR8189
the nations leading advocate for personal privacy and a womans right to choose, words from a whirlwind of insanity.
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posted on
07/21/2005 4:17:25 AM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(In Honor of Terri Schiavo. *check my FReeppage for the link* Let it load and have the sound on.)
To: scott says
If the left hadn't killed their own babies for the past 40 years, they would have had the votes to be the majority in the congess and would have won the election in 2000. I may have to re-think my opposition to abortion. s/off
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posted on
07/21/2005 4:56:11 AM PDT
by
USS Alaska
(Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
To: SDGOP
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ie the big three rape,incest,health of mother... The health of the mother is the "small" exception the size of the Grand Canyon. The court has interpreted health to include mental health and allows any potential discomfort to be swept under that rug.
New baby = financial strain = depression = abortion okay.
To: RWR8189
Just a NARAL press release to provide web presence for their fax blizzards and the all-important fundraising letters (hey, they've got condos in Aspen to pay for!).
Even by the low standards of these activist groups, this is pretty low-brow. The complexity of the nominee's legal history with Roe isn't quite so simple. But it seems NARAL's followers are pretty stupid or at least NARAL thinks they are.
I wonder how we can find out how much NARAL will raise using these tactics to oppose Roberts' confirmation. Might be interesting. I think they'll be lucky to cover the costs of their mailings and ad campaigns in the lib tabloid press like NYT.
To: SDGOP
I beleive that a majority of americans are opposed to abortion but do want some forms of it.. ie the big three rape,incest,health of mother.
For rape or incidents of unprotected sex, it's now quite routine to offer the woman the morning-after pill. This really takes the impact out of this rape exception issue. College health clinics do it. My understanding is that it's not difficult for teenage girls to get such pills from their own doctors or other clinics without parental consent.
Health-of-the-mother justifications have been undermined by the partial-birth fight and the AMA's doubts about the necessity of such late-term abortions. In addition, it's pretty common knowledge the number of women who have ignored their doctor's advice to abort and gave birth to healthy children and had no health problems.
On the incest issue, I think you have stronger grounds. But then, is it reasonable to allow the entire abortion debate to revolve over the right to abort in cases of incest? Given that the very definition of incest has become so much weaker (cousins marrying, etc.) I don't see this as a key reason to make public policy.
The biggest misconception in American politics is this inviolability of Roe. It certainly was true for decades. But I think that time has come and gone. It's just that most people haven't yet recognized it.
To: RWR8189
The dykes with coathangers have weighed in.
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posted on
07/21/2005 4:23:38 PM PDT
by
Yankee
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