Posted on 11/12/2004 9:07:10 AM PST by cpforlife.org
Yes, I think Owens was wrong.
A judge overturning Roe is not legislating from the bench but instead returning things to the status quo ante.
Alberto Gonzales is pro-life.
What makes you think that he's not?
Never said that overturning Roe v. Wade would be legislating from the bench. There is no law named "Roe v. Wade".
Your point about the sins of the father is totally irrelevant. The child's NEED creates in him an inferiority. A person who attaches himself to the blood supply of another, and draws nourishment from her, and causes that person GREAT PAIN, is not innocent.
The point is that she did NOT support the law, she supported her NOTION of the law.
The law allows for a minor to seek a "judicial bypass" on the notification, and it sets standards, albeit rather ambiguous standards, to establish whether that judicial bypass should be granted.
What are those standards?
"The court may grant her request if the minor is able to establish she is mature and sufficiently well informed to make the decision to have the abortion without telling her parent or guardian."
Maturity was not an issue, so all that's left is defining "sufficiently well informed to make the decision".
Well, I have no doubt that she was well aware of what her decision meant, and that she had consulted with a physician and addressed what risks she faced.
rather ambiguous standards,>>
you hit the nail on the head.
It's all arbitrary, if he were pro life he would have sided with Priscella Owen, who obviously isn't a good judge since Gonzales did the right thing according to you.
Hey, you can't have it both ways either Gonzales was right and Owen wrong or the other way around.
So, the minor is now an adult, who aborted her living child and will most likely suffer lifelong depression, possibly suicide and an increase risk of getting breast cancer! Way to go Gonzales.
Who knows maybe she's now sterile too.
BINGO!
first and foremost, define the rights of the unborn BY LAW!
Coincidentally, that's been on Bush's plate since he was elected.
President Signs Rights for Unborn Victims Written by Tom Strode WASHINGTON (BP)--Federal law now recognizes an unborn child as a victim when he or she is harmed or killed in a crime against a pregnant woman.
President Bush signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act into law April 1. Federal law has not treated an unborn child as a victim when he or she dies as a result of an assault against or murder of the mother, even though 29 states have laws that recognize the illegal killing of an unborn child as murder in at least some cases.
It's amazing to me that people are so incredibly short-sighted, that they would question the decision of the one President who has accomplished the most for the unborn in the past twenty years.
I'll remember this when President Bush appoints Priscilla Owen to the SCOTUS. If Gonzales was right then Owen was wrong. You can't have it both ways.
WRONG!
Jane Doe met the criteria as the law was written!
She was mature (age of consent in Texas is 17), and she was sufficiently well informed about the repercussions of her decision.
I don't want a Judge slanting his opinion based on his feelings from either side of this issue!
What the hell are you babbling about "have it both ways"?
Owen was wrong in this case.
Did you read the rest of that post?
Yes, I read the rest of the post, and my question stands.
I'll remember this when President Bush appoints Priscilla Owen to the SCOTUS.
I think she was wrong in her view and Gonzales is correct.>>
ok
Owen was wrong in this case. >>
Was she? How so? So I guess she should't be trusted to be a justice of the SCOTUS.
The legislature passed a law mandating parental notification in TX leaving a back door open for judges, leaving nothing really spelled out in the law as to what instances can a child have an abortion without the parents knowing and the pro-abortion judges ruled in her favor and the pro-life judges ruled against her.
I'd say the judges that ruled in her favor are activist judges since the law was written to prevent young girls from having an abortion. She had an abortion, ergo, Gonzales is an activist judge.
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