NARAL Pro-Choice America: Judge John Roberts an Unsuitable Choice for Supreme Court Justice

NARAL Pro-Choice America ^ | July 20, 2005

[the invisib1e hand]

the nation’s leading advocate for personal privacy and a woman’s right to choose,

words from a whirlwind of insanity.

[USS Alaska]

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

[Sgt_Schultze]

...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.

[George W. Bush]

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.

[George W. Bush]

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.

[Yankee]

The dykes with coathangers have weighed in.