Posted on 05/16/2019 8:45:27 AM PDT by jazusamo
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(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), one of 22 Democrats seeking her party's presidential nomination, told MSNBC on Wednesday that Alabama's new abortion ban is "draconian and inhumane," and she called for "action" against Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch if they do not uphold Roe v. Wade.
Both men are Trump appointees.
Gillibrand said President Trump has deliberately selected "radical justices" to "undermine basic reproductive freedoms and civil rights" of women.
"And I'm going to lift this up, and as President of the United States, I will not appoint any justice that does not agree that they will support the precedent of Roe v. Wade or other judges," Gillibrand said.
"That is the law of the land, and I think both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh lied to the Judiciary Committee when they said they would uphold precedent. And if they then go back on this -- this statement they made during their confirmation hearings -- I think we should look towards what we will do to address it, because we need far more oversight and accountability over these Supreme Court Justices, and if they lied in their hearings, then we should take action."
Gillibrand said she will be in Georgia on Thursday, "to talk about the law that was just passed there, to lift those voices up of the women who are deeply affected, and to make sure that America understands that this is going to be a fight for something that is so important and personal to every woman -- that decision to make these kind of life or death intimate decisions about our families and our bodies."
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed into law the Alabama Human Life Protection Act, which makes abortionists criminals in most cases, except when the pregnancy poses a serious health risk to the mother.
Ivey issued a statement, admitting that the law may be "unenforceable" at the moment.
Today, I signed into law the Alabama Human Life Protection Act, a bill that was approved by overwhelming majorities in both chambers of the Legislature. To the bill’s many supporters, this legislation stands as a powerful testament to Alabamians’ deeply held belief that every life is precious and that every life is a sacred gift from God.
To all Alabamians, I assure you that we will continue to follow the rule of law.
In all meaningful respects, this bill closely resembles an abortion ban that has been a part of Alabama law for well over 100 years. As today’s bill itself recognizes, that longstanding abortion law has been rendered “unenforceable as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.”
No matter one’s personal view on abortion, we can all recognize that, at least for the short term, this bill may similarly be unenforceable. As citizens of this great country, we must always respect the authority of the U.S. Supreme Court, even when we disagree with their decisions.
Many Americans, myself included, disagreed when Roe v. Wade was handed down in 1973. The sponsors of this bill believe that it is time, once again, for the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit this important matter, and they believe this act may bring about the best opportunity for this to occur.
Gillibrand called the Alabama law an "all-out attack by the Republican party to undermine basic civil rights and to roll back and undermine basic reproductive freedoms in this country. It is something they are determined to turn back the clock on," she said.
She noted that in the 2018 election, "women's voices were heard":
"They ran for office in record numbers. They won in record numbers, and women's vote turned out in record numbers. And so, I hope America's women and their families and the men who love them are paying attention because what this president is doing is criminalizing basic healthcare and undermining our constitutional rights and our constitutional freedoms to make these very intimate decisions ourselves."
We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.
Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.
Gillibrand said she will be in Georgia on Thursday, “to talk about the law that was just passed there,
They people of Georgia don’t want or need you there!
Lynch mob?
Sure sounds like it.
I can definitely see Kavanaugh caving! This guy is turning out to be a complete pu$$y! His recent votes are an attempt to win the favor of Liberals!
This guy is bad news!
What law is she talking about? Was it passed and signed by SCOTUS by any chance?
How can ANYONE support the MURDER of an innocent BABY?
Oh, yes it is murder and yes it is a baby. A distinct, individual, human, baby, with it’s own unique DNA.
NOT part of the mother’s body.
I know everyone here knows this, but just in case some young skull full of mush happens to be trolling here, they might learn something.
if they overturn it, it’s no longer the law now, is it? So how are they going to go after these judges? Is she threatening them?
I’m tired of militant, fangtooth, man-hating feminazis ruling this country. They deserve nothing. Deny them their beloved abortion.
Abortion is the sacrament of Satanists
The Democratic Party is the vehicle for the dark Lord
Witness slavery witness the KKK had many other atrocities put forth upon these great United States of America by the evil perverted and demonic Democratic Party
Lock. Her. Up.
Nothing like a white suburban female liberal.
I deal with them every day.
Well I know about 80 million U.S. citizens that would beg to differ. IF THEIR 80 MILLION U.S. CONSTITUTION PROTECTED LIVES HADN’T BEEN SUCKED OUT OF THE WOMB.
Misguided, post-17th Amendment ratification Sen. Gellibrand unsurprisingly doesn’t seem to understand that case president regarding Roe v. Wade was established through judicial tyranny, not the law of the land imo, activist Supreme Court justices politically “amending” to the Constitution from the bench the Democratic / RINO vote-winning, politically correct “right” to have an abortion.
"The Constitution on this hypothesis is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.” —Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1819.
"Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure." —Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823."
"The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary, as distinguished from technical, meaning; where the intention is clear, there is no room for construction and no excuse for interpolation or addition [emphasis added].” —United States v. Sprague, 1931.
What needs to be aborted is the ill-conceived 17th Amendment. The 16th Amendment can disappear too.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA!
Whoa...threatening Supreme Court Justices.
That just doesn't fly.
Libs assume that the world must be their way or it’s wrong. Hubris.
Roe v Wade was bad law. “Issuing from a penumbra “ is not sound legal argument.
Why not? They’ve already been there, ask Antonin Scalia. Oh wait, you can’t he’s dead.
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