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Sandra Cano is the woman whose name was used against her will to legalize late-term abortion in Doe v. Bolton, handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973. As she recalled, she was trying to file for a divorce from her husband and regain custody of her small children. She never sought, had, or even believed in abortion. Sandra Cano, the former "Doe" of Doe v. Bolton. After she dropped out of school in the ninth grade, she married at 17 to a man she later learned was a convicted child molester. Throughout her marriage, Sandra's husband would disappear ...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new Harris Poll claims a majority of Americans favor the Roe v. Wade decision that allowed virtually unlimited abortions nationwide. However, the poll's question erroneously told respondents on three occasions that Roe only allowed abortions up to three weeks into the pregnancy. Harris has asked the poll about support for the landmark Supreme Court case almost every year since the decision was handed down in 1973. However, the question misleads survey participants.It uses pro-abortion language saying the abortion should be "to the woman and her doctor to decide" and repeatedly telling them wrong information...

On Sunday, November 12, 2006, I wrote a piece entitled, “Where Do Reasonably Moderate Conservatives Go From Here?”. I posted this article on my weblog and also on a conservative website. It resulted in a slew of comments from conservatives that “it’s not possible to be a moderate and a conservative, too”. Some of the comments to that effect were not so polite as they could be, and obviously I had touched a nerve among some people. It got me thinking about two questions: can you be a moderate conservative; and, what separates a moderate conservative like me from a...

I am presenting this article by Kathleen Parker because she comes very close to the position on abortion I have taken in my discussions on this site. I want Roe vs Wade (and Doe v. Bolton) overturned because in these decisions the Supreme Court shredded the Constitution and thrust the federal government into matters it has no right to affect under the republican form of government our forefathers so wisely created for us. I am personally pro-life, but at the state level I want no abortion limitations placed on mature, unmarried women because I never want to go back to...

WASHINGTON, September 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court plans to hear a suit to reverse the landmark abortion US case, Doe v. Bolton, from the case’s original plaintiff, who claims the facts of the original case were fraudulent and she was misrepresented by attorneys. The Court plans to consider the case on October 6, which with its companion case Roe v. Wade remains the chief obstacle to national and state laws restricting or prohibiting abortion. Both Doe and Roe were decided by the Court the same day, thereby overturning the nation’s abortion laws. However, it is the “health exception”...

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, author of the controversial Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion in 1973, died Thursday at a Virginia hospital (...) President Clinton said Thursday he "saw up close Harry Blackmun's intense passion -- his passion for the welfare of the American people, for defending our liberties and our institutions, for moving us forward together." "In 24 years on the Supreme Court he served with compassion, distinction, and honor," Clinton said. "Every decision and every dissent was firmly grounded in the Constitution he revered and his uncanny feel for the human element that lies...

A good discussion of Doe v. Bolton is found at: DOE v. BOLTON, 410 U.S. 179 (1973) -- http://www.peopleforlife.org/bolton.html From this discussion and text, it is my opinion that Doe v. Bolton deals with the constitutionality of restrictions on abortion. I may be wrong. The important case that maybe Doe v. Bolton might be challenged on is: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/qp/04-01144qp.pdf -- AYOTTE, ATTORNEY. GEN. OF NH V. PLANNED PARENTHOOD That is why this is a question thread. It is my understanding that Doe v. Bolton addressed the question of placing restrictions on abortion. If that is true, then perhaps Doe v. Bolton...

Statement United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary The Consequences of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton June 23, 2005 The Honorable Sam Brownback United States Senator , Kansas -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR SAM BROWNBACK CHAIRMAN, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING: “THE CONSEQUENCES OF ROE V. WADE AND DOE V. BOLTON” JUNE 23, 2005 I am pleased to call to order this Constitution Subcommittee hearing on the consequences of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, and thank Ranking Member Feingold, the witnesses, and those in attendance for their participation. America was...

A group of women who testify they were hurt by abortion are calling on President Bush and the Senate to select a justice willing to look at facts and evidence unavailable at the time of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. "There is not one aspect of my life that has not been affected by my abortion," said Dianne Donaudy, Georgia state leader for Operation Outcry. "We must have a nominee who believes in the rule of law." Operation Outcry says it represents more than 1,000 women whose affidavits were filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case brought...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Members of the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday will hold a private discussion on whether to take the case of Norma McCorvey, the former Roe of Roe v. Wade, who wants the nation's top court to overturn the decision that legalized abortion. The Justice Foundation, a pro-life law firm, has been handling the case for McCorvey. She wants the court to overturn the Roe case because she says new information has been brought to light that shows abortion hurts women. McCorvey's petition includes affidavits from hundreds of women who say that their abortion hurt them and...

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com In a move hailed as a breakthrough by abortion opponents, a federal appeals court agreed to hear oral arguments in an attempt by the original plaintiff in Roe vs. Wade to overturn the landmark decision. Norma McCorvey Norma McCorvey – "Jane Roe" in the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case – wants to reopen the case that struck down all state laws restricting abortion, based on changes in law and new scientific research that make the prior decision "no longer just." As WorldNet Daily reported, a district court ruled it was too late for McCorvey to reopen the...

Abortion is the most polarizing issue in America. It has been for 30 years, since the Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, found that women had a constitutional right to abortion. The Court’s rationales were not rooted in anything in the Constitution, yet the decisions pushed aside states’ abortion laws, many over a century old. Protected from politics, abortion rights became a lighting rod, a talisman of feminists, and an abomination to abortion opponents. U.S. Senators have made judicial nominees’ views of Roe v. Wade a de facto Test Act. It is strange...

(CNSNews.com) - The plaintiff in one of the two famed Supreme Court cases that when combined, legalized abortion during all nine months of pregnancy, announced Monday she was filing a motion to try to have the historic verdict overturned. Sandra Cano, who was identified only as "Mary Doe" in the 1973 Doe v. Bolton case, is now a pro-life activist, as is Norma McCorvey, the woman referred to as "Jane Roe" in the more famous Roe v. Wade ruling from the same year. The Doe v. Bolton ruling broadened the health exception for late term abortions, allowing women virtually unfettered...

'Doe' of Doe v. Bolton Announces Historic Legal Effort at Press Conference 8/22/03 10:00:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor Contact: Anne Newman of The Justice Foundation, 210-771-0757 (cell) or 210-614-7157 ext. 208 News Advisory: "Doe" of Doe v. Bolton (companion case to Roe v. Wade) announces historic legal effort at press conference WHO: -- Sandra Cano, "Doe" in Doe v. Bolton -- the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that created abortion on demand and also led to the gruesome "partial-birth abortion" procedure WHAT: Sandra Cano, the "Doe" of the Doe v. Bolton abortion case -- the companion...

To understand fully the incalculable effects of Roe v. Wade it is necessary (though of course not sufficient) to understand the historical and legal context in which it occurred. When the decision came down in February 1973, the nation was embroiled in the Vietnam War and President Nixon had just begun his second term. Just around the corner, but unforeseen by any of us, were the fall of Saigon and the President’s resignation. Nor did most of us perceive how, all around us, the social environment was being transformed by a sudden breakdown in traditional norms governing sexual behavior and...

On the 30-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's epochal 1973 Roe vs. Wade on abortion, there were almost as many headlines about the decline in the number of abortion providers as there were about the still-controversial decision itself and about the practice it legalized, at a stroke, in all 50 states. The concern over the number of abortion providers stems from a study done by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, showing that the number of doctors, clinics and hospitals willing to abort pregnancies shows a steady and significant decline over the years. There are now, in the United States, 1,819 known...

Getting Over Roe v. Wade A conservative Christian says it's time for his side to accept Roe as law and ask what's next. By R.R. Carlo Earlier this fall, professor Michael McConnell of the University of Utah told senators that he regarded the Supreme Court's landmark abortion decision Roe. V. Wade "as settled as any issue can be in constitutional law." McConnell noted that "a lot has happened" since Roe and, as a result, the right to an abortion reflects "the consensus of the American people . . ." What makes these comments noteworthy—even shocking--is that McConnell, confirmed last...