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Miers Nomination Raises Important Questions for Women (NOW being Reasonable?)
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Posted on 10/11/2005 1:59:49 AM PDT by indianrightwinger

Miers Nomination Raises Important Questions for Women

Statement of NOW President Kim Gandy

October 3, 2005

George W. Bush's nomination of White House Counsel Harriet Miers to serve as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court raises important questions for women's rights supporters. While we are pleased that Bush chose a woman for the High Court, her judicial philosophy is more important than her gender. Miers' potential as a justice is unknown at this point.

What we do know about Miers is that she is a Bush loyalist, having worked closely with him since at least 1993. With this nomination, Bush has raised to new heights his fondness for promoting close confidantes, like Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales, to top positions.

If confirmed, Miers would fill the seat of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who was the key swing vote to preserve the basic protections of Roe v. Wade, to require a health exception to state-level abortion restrictions, to allow affirmative action in college admissions, and to protect Title IX's promise of equal educational opportunities for women and girls, among many others.

After careful consideration of O'Connor's record and judicial philosophy, NOW testified in support of her confirmation in 1981. While she was a conservative, O'Connor did support basic human rights and liberties that transcend the often rigid labels of "liberal" or "conservative."

It remains to be seen where Miers stands on those and virtually every other issue. She has no paper trail and has never served as a judge—quite simply, her future conduct on the Court may be impossible to determine. Should the Senate confirm someone to a lifetime appointment with so little information? We think not. NOW urges the Senate to ask tough questions, insist on answers, and refuse to confirm this nomination unless they can establish that Miers supports the fundamental rights of women.

The rights of women and girls are on the line; too much is at stake to confirm a stealth nominee to the Court.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gandy; miers; nags; now; scotus; women
Rights of "girls" are on the line? You mean the right to have abortions, especially without parental consent?
1 posted on 10/11/2005 1:59:57 AM PDT by indianrightwinger
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To: indianrightwinger

You have a new ally. NOW. LOL


2 posted on 10/11/2005 2:02:30 AM PDT by RTINSC (What, Me Worry?..I own a Haliburton Jihad Deluxe Slicer Dicer .)
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To: indianrightwinger
Yep. To the Left, nothing else matters but abortion on demand. And if Miers is not 100% where NOW wants her to be - they will bork her never mind the fact she's a woman. If you're not for killing babies at any stage of pregnancy, you're not a champion of women's rights. To the NOW Gals, that's the only issue that counts.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
3 posted on 10/11/2005 2:05:50 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: indianrightwinger

Seems the NOW Gals are starting to get a little worried that conservatives won't be able to kill this nomination


4 posted on 10/11/2005 2:10:51 AM PDT by Mo1
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5 posted on 10/11/2005 2:12:32 AM PDT by konaice
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I got a laugh out of this one! :-)

Call us types paranoid, but when the liberals are not screaming their lungs out against a nominee, we get suspicious.


6 posted on 10/11/2005 2:14:59 AM PDT by indianrightwinger
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To: konaice
If the Left concludes she's not as liberal as O'Connor - the protest roles in that cartoon will be reversed. And NOW and Planned Parenthood have reason for concern. They knew O'Connor wasn't a threat to them but they don't know if Miers would uphold Roe.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
7 posted on 10/11/2005 2:17:11 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: indianrightwinger

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1499038/posts
"Senate Dems Defend Miers on Top Court Nod"


8 posted on 10/11/2005 2:18:28 AM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
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To: Stellar Dendrite

The first sentence of the article itself is A LIE. Conservatives are NOT saying she is not qualified. Only that the President did not nominate a known Scalia/Thomas type.


9 posted on 10/11/2005 2:24:35 AM PDT by indianrightwinger
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The rights of women and girls are on the line.

Of course, if the girls in question haven't managed to be born yet, NOW 'celebrates' the right to kill them.

10 posted on 10/11/2005 3:44:56 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (check out my posts on Today show bias at www.newsbusters.org)
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After careful consideration of O'Connor's record and judicial philosophy, NOW testified in support of her confirmation in 1981

And when this happened...what were the conservatives saying about Reagan?

11 posted on 10/11/2005 3:48:34 AM PDT by dawn53
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Rights of "girls" are on the line? You mean the right to have abortions, especially without parental consent?

Abortion is only one of the many issues that will come before the court; and, a relatively minor one at that. What is at stake is nothing less then the abortion of our nation as a viable state.
12 posted on 10/11/2005 4:03:53 AM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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I really wish ya'll would quit posting pictures of Mrs and Mrs. Kerry. they make me anxious and noxious.
13 posted on 10/11/2005 4:45:37 AM PDT by wolfcreek
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Well.. it's always been about "ideology" for the feminists. Leftist ideology, that is. Don't take my word for it, just ask Juanita Broadrick.

If Miers were liberal, the feminists would be trumpeting in print the "women have triumphed, thanks to NOW, send us your money" articles.

14 posted on 10/11/2005 4:56:44 AM PDT by Alia
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