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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 06:03 PM
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Roe v. Wade at 35: Up For Grabs in the Next Election
http://www.takebackthecourt.org/

January 22, 2008 is the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision recognizing that a woman’s constitutional right to privacy includes the right to choose to end a pregnancy. Without question, Roe is one of the leading examples, and certainly one of the most famous, of the Court’s vital role in protecting Americans’ individual rights and freedoms.

The controversy that has surrounded Roe since it was decided not only serves to underscore the importance of the Court, but also of the election of presidents to nominate individuals to fill vacancies on the Court and senators who decide whether or not to confirm those nominees. For decades, Religious Right activists have clamored for the appointment of justices to the Court who would overturn Roe, and have supported presidential and Senate candidates who embrace that agenda. There can be little question that their voices have been heard by President Bush, who has made anti-choice ideology a virtual if not actual litmus test for his selection of federal judges.

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More Than A Feeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 06:06 PM
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1. On another site, I'm defending choice against four or five fundies.
Edited on Tue Jan-22-08 06:07 PM by Heaven and Earth
These jokers never bothered to even read Roe or Casey! They have no idea what Roe held, or how Casey modified it, nevermind Stenberg or Gonzalez. If you are going to be outraged, you should at least understand what it is you are outraged about. And they think they are qualified to make medical decisions for women? I laugh, because I musn't throw things out the window in disgust.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 06:20 PM
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3. what? you think our laws are based on precedent or something?
lol! I can only imagine the shock and awe you are delivering to them! God Speed!
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More Than A Feeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 06:33 PM
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4. Thanks, Iris!
Two posters on the site have formed conspiracy theories about me and four think I'm satanic. I guess I must be doing something right!
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momster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 06:10 PM
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2. RU-486
has changed the whole dynamic. There's a good article in the Wapo about how much more difficult it is to track abortion when women are doing it privately by pill instead of having to go to a clinic. The anti-folks seem rather lost now when *any* doctor could be prescribing the drugs.

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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 07:10 PM
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5. One more Justice who is not committed to upholding women’s rights ...
One more Justice who is not committed to upholding women’s rights

could mean the end to our reproductive freedom for decades.



Protect the right to choose.



35 years after the Supreme Court affirmed that women have the right to make their own reproductive choices

. . . the right to choose is hanging by a thread.


One more Justice who is not committed to upholding women's rights could mean the end to our reproductive freedom for decades.

And there is only one way you and I can stop that from happening . . . to elect a President
and Senators this year who will defend the right to choose NO MATTER WHAT.

That's why I'm lending my voice and my dollars to People For the American Way's "Take Back the Court" campaign.

I simply will not sit by and watch the Court roll back my rights



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