Posted on 01/24/2006 8:39:26 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Statement of Kate Michelman on Today's Senate Judiciary Committee Vote
1/24/2006 11:32:00 AM
To: National Desk, Supreme Court Reporter, Congressional Correspondent
Contact: Jamie Shor, 202-628-7772
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement of Kate Michelman, author of With Liberty and Justice for All, and former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America:
"Today's vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee sets the stage for the next battle in the full Senate to protect a woman's constitutional right to choose. While not surprising, the vote illustrates the increasing ease with which politicians claim the pro-choice mantel, reap the political and electoral benefits, then abandon the issue when it comes time to take a stand.
"Committee Chair Arlen Specter has long touted his pro-choice stance, including in his run for the presidency, in an effort to differentiate himself from the right wing conservatives who control the Republican party. Indeed, after the election of 2004 as he was poised to take the chairmanship, he pronounced a woman's right to choose 'inviolate' and equated overturning Roe with overturning Brown v. Board of Education. Yet, even when Judge Alito -- in marked contrast with fellow conservative Justice Roberts -- refused to pronounce Roe as 'settled law,' Senator Specter gave him a pass, dismissing the right to choose as a 'single issue' not important enough to warrant his opposition. This is a blatant failure to live up to the principle of equal justice for women, a principle he claimed to embrace.
"I call on Democrats and moderate Republicans to defend
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I'll print this and then put it in my circular file.
Find someone to pull her panties out of her crack.
All together now:
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Poor widdle Katie didn't get her way, now she stomps her feet.
May I suggest they hold a candle-light vigil and sing Kumbaya.
And just wait until either JRB, Edith Jones or Pamela Owen gets confirmed to replace Stevens or Ginsburg: Michelman will be like a wounded coyote screaming at the moon!
Ever notice that people like this can't bring themselves to use the word 'abortion'?
They have to veil thier vileness in "choice" "women's reproductive health", " equal justice for women", etc.
Why can't they just come out and say the word?
Don't waste the ink....
Kate: if you have to twist the Constitution into a pretzel in order to get what you want, that might be a tip off that there's a problem . . .
"I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." - Ronald Reagan, September 22, 1980
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