Miers on Abortion - from the Washington Post, et al

ConfirmThem.com, et al ^ | 10-26-05 | TitansAFC

[TitansAFC]

Back in the "Totally Opposed" column now.....

[NJ_gent]

"“My basic message here is that when you hear the courts blamed for activism or intrusion where they do not belong, stop and examine what the elected leadership has done to solve the problem at issue,” she said."

For those of you in the "wait for the hearings" group, this is the be all, end all of this nominee. This is not a strict constructionist; this is our worst damn nightmare.

[NeoCaveman]

"“My basic message here is that when you hear the courts blamed for activism or intrusion where they do not belong, stop and examine what the elected leadership has done to solve the problem at issue,” she said."

Courts are there to settle cases, not solve issues. She sounds like the anti-Roberts.

[GraniteStateConservative]

The ongoing debate continues...

Can an ongoing debate stop and still be ongoing?

[Blood of Tyrants]

I think that the libertarian belief of letting one do what they will with their own body only works with abortion when you assume that the baby inside the woman isn't a person and has no rights.

[NeoCaveman]

Link to the Wash Post article on this here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102502038_pf.html

PDF file of the speech, here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/miers/EWDSpeech.pdf

[Shalom Israel]

For those of you in the "wait for the hearings" group, this is the be all, end all of this nominee. This is not a strict constructionist; this is our worst damn nightmare.

But not Bush's. His wife and parents favor "choice", and probably he as well.

[thoughtomator]

Ditto that. Libertarians who recognize the basic facts of human reproduction are pro-life.

[TitansAFC]

The White House says not to get into a "snit" over this.

This is just devastating.....just devastating.

[Kjobs]

I'm sure Miers is a nice person; I'm sure she's been loyal to our President. But she isn't SC material.

[NeoCaveman]

After reading the full speech I detect little if any libertarianism but great big doses of across the board liberalism.

[notes2005]

“The ongoing debate continues surrounding the attempt to once again criminalize abortions or to once and for all guarantee the freedom of the individual women’s [sic] right to decide for herself whether she will have an abortion,” Miers said.

SOUTER CLONE

[Señor Zorro]

She sounds like the anti-Roberts.

Where an unanswered question is: is that good or bad?

[NeoCaveman]

Where an unanswered question is: is that good or bad?

I meant it in the negative way.

[NeoCaveman]

Read the whole speech. She makes Souter sound like Scalia.

[MineralMan]

"But not Bush's. His wife and parents favor "choice", and probably he as well."

Bingo. Bush came out against partial birth abortion, but I cannot for the life of me remember him ever saying that abortion should be illegal, period.

I'm sure Miers believes as President Bush does. I trust him on that. The question is: Would we want President Bush on the SCOTUS?

[notes2005]

Sad, but true.

[Cboldt]

Remeber, SHE is PERSONALLY opposed to abortion, and is an evangelical (wink).

The speech is interesting too, in that she discussed a voter turn-down of school funding as something that might need to be settled by the courts.

[Cincinnatus]

These are not the words of an "originalist", these are not the words of someone who thinks judges should not legislate from the bench, these are not the words of a conservative. This is not what the president should be seeing when he looks into the heart of a potential nominee.

I am convinced that she is not only woefully unqualified for the position, but that she would be horribly bad as a justice from every perspective that matters to me as a lawyer, former judge, and Conservative Republican Pro-Life Catholic Red Sox fanatic. (While I'm not sure what her position on baseball would be, I feel confident in asserting that she would screw that up as well.)

STOP, Mr. President. STOP! Please!

[GOPJ]

For those of you in the "wait for the hearings" group, this is the be all, end all of this nominee. This is not a strict constructionist; this is our worst damn nightmare.

I agree. And I'm not a sexist either...