Sotomayor stays mum during Senate visits (Is Sonia PRO-LIFE? Oh, my.)

Sign On San Diego ^ | 6/02/09

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Bingo.

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Life, preserving life, to me, is a far more important issue -- we can deal with the racism and the bigotry, that can be canceled out by other justices and so forth.

To what extent should parental authority be held supreme, and to what extent should it be subjugated to state authority? Abortion is an extreme case of holding parental authority to be supreme. Too bad leftists don't seem to recognize parental authority in other cases.

In earlier times, and in other cultures, children had no rights except what their parents chose to grant them, but parents could grant any or all of their own rights to their kids as they saw fit. While some mischief certainly occurred as a result, I doubt it was as severe as the mischief that has occurred in the name of "children's rights".

While I wouldn't say that a parent's rights should go as far as killing children outright (abortion/infanticide) I would view the mischief resulting from excessive parental rights as being fairly minor compared from that resulting from overly-curtailed parental rights. Parents who abuse their kids will tend to weed themselves out of the gene pool. A government that abuses children, however, will likely as not expand its power by so doing.

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WOULD A PRESIDENT WHO BELIEVES THIS APPOINT A PRO-LIFER TO THE USSC?

What Obama Believes re Aborted Babies Born Alive
FR POSTED http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2253212/posts?page=6

In February 2004, US Senate candidate Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, sent a fund-raising letter with the "alarming news" that "right-wing politicians" had passed a law (prohibiting doctors from stabbing half-born babies in the neck with scissors, suctioning out their brains and crushing their skulls).

Michelle Obama called partial-birth abortion "a legitimate medical procedure. " She urged supporters to pay $150 to attend a fund-raising luncheon for her husband, who she promised would fight against "cynical ploy[s]" to stop it.

BACKGROUND Legislation was presented on the federal level and in various states called the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. It stated all live-born babies were guaranteed the same constitutional right to equal protection, whether or not they were wanted. BAIPA sailed through the U.S. Senate by unanimous vote.

Even Sens. Clinton, Kennedy and Kerry agreed a mother's right to "choose" stopped at her baby's delivery. The bill also passed overwhelmingly in the House. NARAL went neutral on it. Abortion enthusiasts publicly agreed that fighting BAIPA would appear extreme. President Bush signed BAIPA into law in 2002.

But in Illinois, the state version of BAIPA repeatedly failed, thanks in large part to then-state Sen. Barack Obama. Obama worried aloud that legislation protecting live aborted babies might infringe on women's rights or abortionists' rights.

In 2003, as chairman of the next Senate committee to which BAIPA was sent, Obama stopped it from even getting a hearing, shelving it to die much like babies were still being shelved to die in Illinois hospitals and abortion clinics.

BAIPA passed in 2005.........after Obama left.