The Consequences of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton (SENATOR SAM BROWNBACK)

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary ^ | June 23, 2005 | The Honorable Sam Brownback, United States Senator , Kansas

[FormerACLUmember]

What is the point here? I am not getting it.

[CarlEOlsoniii]

BTTT

Thank you very much for finding and posting this from Sen. Brownback's Number #1 fan

[DoraC]

when a divided Supreme Court found a constitutional right to abortion It was 7 in favour and 2 opposed. That is not exactly what I would call 'divided'.

[Constitution Restoration Act]

Testimony

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

The Consequences of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton

June 23, 2005





Sandra Cano

(The former Doe of Doe v. Bolton) ,

http://judiciary.senate.gov/print_testimony.cfm?id=1553&wit_id=4393

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TESTIMONY OF SANDRA CANO

The Former Doe of Doe v. Bolton, before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Senate Judiciary Committee June 23, 2005 The Doe v. Bolton Supreme Court decision bears my name. I am Sandra Cano, the former “Doe” of Doe v. Bolton. Doe v. Bolton is the companion case to Roe v. Wade. Using my name and life, Doe v. Bolton falsely created the health exception that led to abortion on demand and partial birth abortion. How it got there is still pretty much a mystery to me. I only sought legal assistance to get a divorce from my husband and to get my children from foster care. I was very vulnerable: poor and pregnant with my fourth child, but abortion never crossed my mind. Although it apparently was utmost in the mind of the attorney from whom I sought help. At one point during the legal proceedings, it was necessary for me to flee to Oklahoma to avoid the pressure being applied to have the abortion scheduled for me by this same attorney. Please understand even though I have lived what many would consider an unstable life and overcome many devastating circumstances, at NO TIME did I ever have an abortion. I did not seek an abortion nor do I

believe in abortion. Yet my name and life is now forever linked with the slaughter of 40-50 million babies. I have tried to understand how it all happened. How did my divorce and child custody case become the basis by which bloody murder is done on infants thriving in the wombs of their mothers? How can cunning, wicked lawyers use an uneducated, defenseless pregnant woman to twist the American court system in such a fraudulent way? Doe has been a nightmare. Over the last 32 years, I have become a prisoner of the case. It took me until 1988 to get my records unsealed in order for me to try and find the answer to those questions and to join in the movement to stop abortion in America. When pro abortion advocates found out about my efforts; my car was vandalized on one occasion and at another time, someone shot at me while I was on my front porch holding my grandbaby. I am angry. I feel like my name, life, and identity have been stolen and put on this case without my knowledge and against my wishes. How dare they use my name and my life this way! One of the Justices of the Supreme Court said during oral argument in my case “What does

it matter if she is real or not.” Well I am real and it does matter. I was in court under a false name and lies. I was never cross-examined in court. Doe v. Bolton is based on a lie and deceit. It needs to be retried or overturned. Doe v. Bolton is against my wishes. Abortion is wrong. I love children. I would never harm a child and yet because of this case I feel like I bear the guilt of over 46 million innocent children being killed. The Supreme Court is also guilty. The bottom line is I want abortion stopped in my name. I want the case which was supposedly to benefit me, be either overturned or retried. If it is retried, at least I will have an opportunity to speak for myself in court, something that never happened before. My lawyers at The Justice Foundation have collected affidavits from over one thousand women hurt by abortion. We have filed those affidavits and a Rule 60 Motion to reverse Doe which is now on its way to the Supreme Court through the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. I am also giving you a copy of my affidavit in the case. Millions of babies have been killed. Millions of women have been hurt horribly. It is time to get my name and life out of this case and its time to stop the killing.

[Mister_Diddy_Wa_Diddy]

The point is, Roe v. Wade was a terrible injustice that has created an American Holocaust that needs to be rectified, ASAP, and that it's a fight that must be seen through to a successful conclusion by overturning the R. v. W. decision.

[Noachian]

To put it simply, Roe was a mistake. A very, very costly one.

To this statement one must ask why the Congress didn't intervene in Roe? It certainly had the power to do so.

What are the constitutional checks on the judiciary? Are there any?

When such fundamentally flawed rulings as Roe are made who is to be held accountable?

[Mister_Diddy_Wa_Diddy]

It was 7 in favour and 2 opposed. That is not exactly what I would call 'divided'.

You are right. They were for the most part united in their wickedness.

[Mister_Diddy_Wa_Diddy]

To this statement one must ask why the Congress didn't intervene in Roe? It certainly had the power to do so.

Because Congress, at the time, was in the control of leftists who have no conscience and promote the death cult of leftist ideals.

[Noachian]

Because Congress, at the time, was in the control of leftists who have no conscience and promote the death cult of leftist ideals.

OK. But, the left isn't in control of Congress now. So, the question remains: Why doesn't Congress intervene?

[Mister_Diddy_Wa_Diddy]

Why doesn't Congress intervene?

They have a disease called lackofspineusitis.

[George W. Bush]

It's interesting to see liberals complain that Roe has been bad for Dims. Former senator Kerrey recently remarked on how many young Dims hold this opinion. By imposing Roe, a poorly decided decision with very spurious support, the Supremes of that era laid the foundation for further abuses of the Constitution.

Some people might argue that issues like abortion or sodomy marriage are best settled nationally. I think I'd prefer to see a few states have their political lives revolve around these issues and free the two political parties from the issue altogether at the national level.

[grellis]

Why doesn't Congress intervene?

And dry up their anti-life warchest? $$$$$. That's why.

[Constitution Restoration Act]

Some people might argue that issues like abortion or sodomy marriage are best settled nationally. I think I'd prefer to see a few states have their political lives revolve around these issues and free the two political parties from the issue altogether at the national level.

 

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul240.html

 

The notion that an all-powerful, centralized state should provide monolithic solutions to the ethical dilemmas of our times is not only misguided, but also contrary to our Constitution. Remember, federalism was established to allow decentralized, local decision-making by states. Yet modern America seeks a federal solution for every perceived societal ill, ignoring constitutional limits on government. The result is a federal state that increasingly makes all-or-nothing decisions that alienate large segments of the population.

 

This federalization of social issues, often championed by conservatives, has not created a pro-life culture, however. It simply has prevented the 50 states* from enacting laws that more closely reflect the views of their citizens. Once we accepted the federalization of abortion law under the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, we lost the ability to apply local community standards to ethical issues. It is much more difficult for pro-life advocates to win politically at the federal level. Those who seek a pro-life culture must accept that we will never persuade 300 million Americans to agree with us. Our focus should be on overturning Roe and getting the federal government completely out of the business of regulating state matters. A pro-life culture can be built only from the ground up, person by person. For too long we have viewed the battle as purely political, but no political victory can change a degraded culture. A pro-life culture must arise from each of us as individuals, not by the edict of an amoral federal government.

 

March 29, 2005

 

Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas.

 

*"Report: 30 States Ready to Outlaw Abortion, Tuesday," October 05, 2004, FOXNews.com http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134530,00.html ."The State-by-State Consequences of Overturning Roe v. Wade," September 2004, The Center for Reproductive Rights http://www.crlp.org/crt_roe.html, http://www.crlp.org/pub_bo_whatifroefell.html

 

 

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[.30Carbine]

Thank you for posting this article and link, and the link to one of the testimonies. Could you post links to other testimonies as well, please?

Thank you, cp, for the ping.

I disagree with the argument that the spuriously decided cases of Roe and Doe (and others) ought to be overturned so that the decisions on abortion may be returned to the states.

Much as the pro-slavery secession and "states' rights" arguments that produced the Civil War were wrong - because slavery itself is wrong and had to be abolished - so too the practice of on-demand abortion is wrong and must be abolished. Even as our nation was founded and our Constitution and Bill of Rights were written to establish and defend true liberty, and thus slavery could not be maintained in practice in a truly free nation, so too abortion is an unsustainable practice whether it is codified in law nationwide or in but one out of the fifty states.

Because the right to life is the primary, first-cause right of every human being, because the defense of the life of its citizens is the number one role of just government, abortion on-demand must be abolished nationally, even as slavery was.

There are those who attempt to rebuke me with the pejorative "Single-Issue Voter": to these I say, if slavery were in practice in America today, would you not consider every other cause secondary to its abolition? Even so, the murder of the innocents in America is by far the most egregious crime against humanity in our day and must be addressed and overturned above any other legal, moral or just necessity.

May it be so, Dear Lord. Amen.

[Lexinom]

Beautiful!

Returning it to the states is a good start, however. I look at it as one pragmatic step to ending abortion. In some states, like Missouri and Louisiana, it will be easy. In others, like California, New York, and Washington, we've got a battle on our hands. But at least... the long-overdue battle may finally be waged and won.

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[Tribune7]

It was 7 in favour and 2 opposed. That is not exactly what I would call 'divided'.

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[ex-snook]

Abortion and the Pill are the weapons of mass destruction most harmful to our individual spirit and our nation's future.