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Gonzales Wrong for Attorney General; Why Won't Bush pick a Pro-Life Nominee? American Life League.
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Posted on 11/12/2004 9:07:10 AM PST by cpforlife.org

To: National Desk

Contact: Amber Matchen of the American Life League, 540-903-9572 or amatchen@all.org

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Judie Brown, president of American Life League, issued the following statement in response to news that White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales is being considered as the replacement for U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft:

"President Bush appears to be doing all that he can to downright ignore pro-life principles. There can be no other explanation for his recommendation of Alberto Gonzales as attorney general. Gonzales has a record, and that record is crystal clear.

"As a Texas Supreme Court justice, Gonzales' rulings implied he does not view abortion as a heinous crime. Choosing not to rule against abortion, in any situation, is the epitome of denying justice for an entire segment of the American population -- preborn babies in the womb.

"When asked if his own personal feelings about abortion would play a role in his decisions, Gonzales told the Los Angeles Times in 2001 that his 'own personal feelings about abortion don't matter... The question is, what is the law, what is the precedent, what is binding in rendering your decision. Sometimes, interpreting a statute, you may have to uphold a statute that you may find personally offensive. But as a judge, that's your job.' Gonzales' position is clear: the personhood of the preborn human being is secondary to technical points of law, and that is a deadly perspective for anyone to take.

"President Bush claims he wants to assist in bringing about a culture of life. Such a culture begins with total protection for every innocent human being from the moment that person's life begins. Within the short period of one week, the president has been silent on pro-abortion Sen. Arlen Specter's desire to chair the senate judiciary committee, and has spoken out in favor of a judge with a pro-abortion track record to lead the Justice Department.

"Why is President Bush betraying the babies? Justice begins with protecting the most vulnerable in our midst. Please, Mr. President -- just say no to the unjust views of Alberto Gonzales."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: all; bush43; doj; gonzales; prolife; term2
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To: sinkspur
Askel, you are such a predictable Bush-basher, I can count on you to pile on with the rest of the neanderthal far-right nutcases who are also predictable in their trashing of Bush.

How is it that any criticism of the consistently un- and extra-constitutional actions of this administration translates to "Bush Bashing"?

You fight like a girl.

221 posted on 11/12/2004 12:22:33 PM PST by Askel5 († Cooperatio voluntaria ad suicidium est legi morali contraria. †)
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To: GregGinn
The party is worthless if it will not try in earnest to stop the holocaust.

Christian, Pro-Life and Family, and American--these are absolutes. Political parties are not.

Answer a simple question, please. How exactly does one pretend to be an innocent bystander at a mass murder?
222 posted on 11/12/2004 12:23:09 PM PST by cpforlife.org (Birth is one day in the life of a person who is already nine months old.)
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To: Hermann the Cherusker

I'm not a lawyer, but in here, it looks that way...

A pregnant single woman (Roe) brought a class action challenging the constitutionality of the Texas criminal abortion laws, which proscribe procuring or attempting an abortion except on medical advice for the purpose of saving the mother's life. A licensed physician (Hallford), who had two state abortion prosecutions pending against him, was permitted to intervene. A childless married couple (the Does), the wife not being pregnant, separately attacked the laws, basing alleged injury on the future possibilities of contraceptive failure, pregnancy, unpreparedness for parenthood, and impairment of the wife's health. A three-judge District Court, which consolidated the actions, held that Roe and Hallford, and members of their classes, had standing to sue and presented justiciable controversies. Ruling that declaratory, though not injunctive, relief was warranted, the court declared the abortion statutes void as vague and overbroadly infringing those plaintiffs' Ninth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The court ruled the Does' complaint not justiciable. Appellants directly appealed to this Court on the injunctive rulings, and appellee cross- appealed from the District Court's grant of declaratory relief to Roe and Hallford.

Held:
1. While 28 U. S. C. § 1253 authorizes no direct appeal to this Court from the grant or denial of declaratory relief alone, review is not foreclosed when the case is properly before the Court on appeal from specific denial of injunctive relief and the arguments as to both injunctive and declaratory relief are necessarily identical. P. 123.
2. Roe has standing to sue; the Does and Hallford do not. Pp. 123-129.
(a) Contrary to appellee's contention, the natural termination of Roe's pregnancy did not moot her suit. Litigation involving pregnancy, which is "capable of repetition, yet evading review," is an exception to the usual federal rule that an actual controversy [p114] must exist at review stages and not simply when the action is initiated. Pp. 124-125.
(b) The District Court correctly refused injunctive, but erred in granting declaratory, relief to Hallford, who alleged no federally protected right not assertable as a defense against the good-faith state prosecutions pending against him. Samuels v. Mackell, 401 U. S. 66. Pp. 125-127.
(c) The Does' complaint, based as it is on contingencies, any one or more of which may not occur, is too speculative to present an actual case or controversy. Pp. 127-129.
3. State criminal abortion laws, like those involved here, that except from criminality only a life- saving procedure on the mother's behalf without regard to the stage of her pregnancy and other interests involved violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects against state action the right to privacy, including a woman's qualified right to terminate her pregnancy. Though the State cannot override that right, it has legitimate interests in protecting both the pregnant woman's health and the potentiality of human life, each of which interests grows and reaches a "compelling" point at various stages of the woman's approach to term. Pp. 147-164.
(a) For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician. Pp. 163, 164.
(b) For the stage subsequent to approximately the end of the first trimester, the State, in promoting its interest in the health of the mother, may, if it chooses, regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health. Pp. 163, 164.
(c) For the stage subsequent to viability the State, in promoting its interest in the potentiality of human life, may, if it chooses, regulate, and even proscribe, abortion except where necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother. Pp. 163-164; 164-165.
4. The State may define the term "physician" to mean only a physician currently licensed by the State, and may proscribe any abortion by a person who is not a physician as so defined. P. 165.
5. It is unnecessary to decide the injunctive relief issue since the Texas authorities will doubtless fully recognize the Court's ruling [p115] that the Texas criminal abortion statutes are unconstitutional. P. 166.
314 F. Supp. 1217, affirmed in part and reversed in part.

It seems to me that the Court held that a woman's right to an abortion fell within the right to privacy protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision gave a woman total autonomy over the pregnancy during the first trimester and defined different levels of state interest for the second and third trimesters. As a result, the laws of 46 states were affected by the Court's ruling.


223 posted on 11/12/2004 12:24:14 PM PST by stuartcr
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To: deport
=== Parental Notification Act

There's no such thing, Orwell.

224 posted on 11/12/2004 12:24:28 PM PST by Askel5 († Cooperatio voluntaria ad suicidium est legi morali contraria. †)
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To: Askel5; sinkspur

Askel, don't you dare insult girls like that. LOL


225 posted on 11/12/2004 12:24:44 PM PST by cpforlife.org (Birth is one day in the life of a person who is already nine months old.)
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To: GregGinn

Yeah, I can see where an election that turned on moral values proves that we shouldn;t fight for the unborn.


226 posted on 11/12/2004 12:24:56 PM PST by radicalamericannationalist (The Senate is our new goal: 60 in '06.)
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To: radicalamericannationalist; Hermann the Cherusker
Are you unable to read?

Hermann quotes the 14th Amendment in the post you replied to.

227 posted on 11/12/2004 12:26:18 PM PST by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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To: cpforlife.org
I get this crap from freepers all the time, they are blinded by something, I don't know what, but they are..

Attn: Freepers

The USA is a Constitutional "Republic", I too worked for Bush, donated to his campaign, volunteered in my county, city and local district to get the republicans elected.

We have every "right" to petition our president and other elected officials if we don't like what they are doing. It doesn't mean we want them out of office, it's the American way to petition our govt. if we don't like an issue.

Are freepers trying to score brownie points with someone or some organization by flaming any freeper who has a difference of opinion with the president?
228 posted on 11/12/2004 12:28:04 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: Askel5
How is it that any criticism of the consistently un- and extra-constitutional actions of this administration translates to "Bush Bashing"?

It's constant, Askel. Constant.

Oh, and blaming Bush and Kissinger for 9/11 was the penultimate in Bush-bashing. And saying, because you were pissed over the Iraq War, that our soldiers didn't deserve the protection of the Geneva Convention.

229 posted on 11/12/2004 12:29:11 PM PST by sinkspur ("It is a great day to be alive. I appreciate your gratitude." God Himself.)
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To: Askel5
You fight like a girl.

LOL!! Feeling masculine today?

230 posted on 11/12/2004 12:30:31 PM PST by sinkspur ("It is a great day to be alive. I appreciate your gratitude." God Himself.)
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To: Askel5; sinkspur
How is it that any criticism of the consistently un- and extra-constitutional actions of this administration translates to "Bush Bashing"?

Putting all that aside, saying that the Bush family is guilty of murder is the ultimate Bush bashing.

And you have done that.

Try not to feign such indignation.

231 posted on 11/12/2004 12:30:58 PM PST by Howlin (I love the smell of mandate in the morning.)
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To: radicalamericannationalist

I quote it right in #218, to which you are responding. Apparently, you cannot read.


233 posted on 11/12/2004 12:32:46 PM PST by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Coleus

I can't speak for all FReepers who disagree with cpforlife.org, but I can say for myself that opposition to Gonzalez is based on the fact that he didn't legislate from the bench in a fashion pleasing to one small group of individuals. I consider refusing to legislate from the bench to be a GOOD thing.


235 posted on 11/12/2004 12:34:48 PM PST by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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To: Se7eN
"Aren't Supreme Court justices supposed to enforce law without letting personal feelings get in the way?"

I think you cold-cocked this argument right off the bat. As I understand it the Attorney General is about LAW ENFORCEMENT and not about LAW MAKING or LAW CHANGING.

Roe is now law and has to be changed before the Attorney General would get involved, that is unless someone were NOT allowed to get an abortion in violation of the law.

236 posted on 11/12/2004 12:35:41 PM PST by Positive (Jesus is coming...and he's pissed.)
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To: Scholastic

The "Parental Consent" charade in Texas was the initial blow to the gut which ruined my plans to vote for Bush last time around.

I tried in vain to get folks to actually read the bill or pay attention to the immediate precedent that was Supreme Court-ordered abortions for minors sans parental notice, much less consent. (These, of course, being only those minor abortions where Mommy the Magistrate hadn't already decided that the girls were mature enough to make this decision.)

The legislation obtained a properly defined Square One and, in the process, gifted the pro-aborts with fasttrack through the system, increased veils of privacy for providers and their shills and capped damages for offending abortionists.

Idiot FReepers tossed their hats in the air, yelling "Don't Mess with Texas!"

I headed to DC where I called the NRLC and asked to meet with their legislative director. Turns out the Texas Legislative Director was covering him that week! We spoke for three hours over lunch.

I was absolutely right ... even where I felt he'd been mispresenting the bill, then, in the newspapers.

Yes, he said, but if girls have the "impression" that they'll have to tell their parents ...

(All they need do is make one phone call to have that much cleared up by a helpful abortion provider or school nurse.)

It's sickening.

You are so right to term the pro-life movement as "bought and paid for" by the GOP who keep them busy-busy-busy with letter writing campaigns and "get out the vote" on behalf of the Personally-Opposed-But potemkin politicians and NRLC.

Abortion is, and always has been, a GOP policy. They were first to pitch it in Congress and the first to make it a "vital" element of our population control policies at home and abroad.

The truth hurts ... but only for a moment. The clarity and reordering of priorities once things FINALLY make sense for a change is well worth the gut-wrenching realization you've been played for a sucker your entire life.


237 posted on 11/12/2004 12:35:42 PM PST by Askel5 († Cooperatio voluntaria ad suicidium est legi morali contraria. †)
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To: Poohbah
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Yeah and I noticed that the word "unborn" isn't in the 14th Amendment. Nowhere to be found. While a person must be born or naturalized to be a citizen, this does not mean that to be a person one must be born. The equal protection clause says "person," not citizen and not "born person." The fact that the clause deliberately uses a different qualification from the Privileges and Immunities clause (citizen in the former, person in the latter) shows that the EP clause was designed to protect a broader population.
238 posted on 11/12/2004 12:37:15 PM PST by radicalamericannationalist (The Senate is our new goal: 60 in '06.)
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To: cpforlife.org

Spare me the lectures, I'm not interested.


239 posted on 11/12/2004 12:38:33 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: Aquinasfan
"Yes, but they're wrong. Get it?"

And that's exactly what they say as well.

So, we will just continue playing the game.

240 posted on 11/12/2004 12:39:51 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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