Posted on 09/13/2005 5:00:01 PM PDT by rhema
The hearings for John Roberts as the President’s choice for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court began Monday morning. True to form, Senator Dianne Feinstein reiterated her “additional role” as spokesperson on behalf of women, specifically 145 million women and pro-abortion rights. On August 25, I wrote to Senator Feinstein in an attempt to help her remove the self-imposed burden of representing this many women in the hearing process.
The good news for the Senator is that she does not represent that many women on any issue. And it should be music to her ears that the polls have drastically changed on the issue of abortion itself: a 2003 survey by The Polling Company found that 54 percent of women identify their position on abortion as falling within one of three “pro-life” positions. Additionally, the 2003 study by the Center for the Advancement of Women showed that among twelve top issues for women, abortion ranked number eleven; it was well outpaced by issues such as “improving women’s health care” and “child care.”
Senator Feinstein used her opening remarks Monday to recite a litany that included the fight for women’s suffrage and numerous other issues. But she used this tactic to camouflage the one issue to which she and Senator Boxer have been inextricably tied: the extreme pro-abortion lobby – groups that don’t even support parents’ right to be notified when their under-aged daughter is set to have an abortion. This association with the radical left is at the core of everything Ms. Feinstein will say and do during these hearings.
But, she will not -- indeed, she cannot -- vote to support one of the most qualified judges ever nominated to the Court lest she abandon the base which has supported her over the years.
The “Roe” in Roe v. Wade, Norma McCorvey, long ago repented for the part she played in the wrongly decided Supreme Court decision in 1973. But, sadly, Senator Feinstein is caught in an age of long ago and far away, before science brought imaging machines of babies in their mother’s womb sucking their thumbs to public attention. And before so many women experienced the painful truth of the abortion issue personally.
As Newsweek accurately reported the day before President Bush nominated Judge Roberts to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court, pro-abortion activists met at the headquarters of NARAL Pro-Choice America and, after canvassing a long list of potential candidates, concluded they could support NO candidates. Clearly, no nominee from a conservative president could satisfy the fringe wing of the liberal base and Senator Feinstein is the general leading those misguided troops.
Mrs. Mackey is vice president for government relations at the Family Research Council.
"Being a female, I think it was even a mistake to give women the right to vote".
I think I understand why you take that position but you are painting all women with a real wide brush. Some women have the brain-power to decide what makes sense, and possess eyes and ears to see the obvious destructive results of leftist thinking. Without going into a litany of the moral sicknesses which ail our country/the world, they are in plain sight for all to see. For one example: How is
"family" described today? a)a husband and wife, b)a mother and father and their children, c) a never-married woman and her children, d)a never-married mother and children with 3, 4, 5 different fathers, e)a homosexual couple rearing children, f) all of the above.
And let's not leave out the many men who support the feminist agenda. We just have to be more vociferous than the left. Frankly, I don't see enough of that fighting spirit in the Republican Party. And last word: though a long-time registered Republican, I have no problem disagreeing with their agenda, either, while I view my husband as a "party" faithful. And yes, he is a male.
"Being a female, I think it was even a mistake to give women the right to vote".
I think I understand why you take that position but you are painting all women with a real wide brush. Some women have the brain-power to decide what makes sense, and possess eyes and ears to see the obvious destructive results of leftist thinking. Without going into a litany of the moral sicknesses which ail our country/the world, they are in plain sight for all to see. For one example: How is
"family" described today? a)a husband and wife, b)a mother and father and their children, c) a never-married woman and her children, d)a never-married mother and children with 3, 4, 5 different fathers, e)a homosexual couple rearing children, f) all of the above.
And let's not leave out the many men who support the feminist agenda. We just have to be more vociferous than the left. Frankly, I don't see enough of that fighting spirit in the Republican Party. And last word: though a long-time registered Republican, I have no problem disagreeing with their agenda, either, while I view my husband as a "party" faithful. And yes, he is a male.
I agree with you 100%. NO WOMAN PRESIDENT EITHER (from either party!)!!! They turn to *itches with a little power and always hungry for more. They scare the hell out of me. At least, most men will listen or pretend to. Not these moon-bat wackos. All they care about is GIVE ME MY ABORTION RIGHTS NOW!
Well they skew farther to the left for sure. But now the polls are good places to meet hot chicks. So, it's a wash.
Hey, potty mouth, since when did the word bitch become profanity? It's simply an insulting term used by people with questionable social skills. Sometimes it's the perfect noun for a given situation much like bastard. Sprinkle lightly and unadorned without apologies I say. If the admins are deleting posts that include these terms then the place really has gone to *ell.
Nonsense. It isn't a good idea to have DemocRATS in powerful positions.
Republican women are AWESOME!
And, on the whole, they are a lot better looking than those hairy-legged piewagons that claim to represent ALL women!
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