Irvine511
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okay, this is NOT your typical FYM abortion thread.
let's consider the following:
[Q]Miers Once Vowed to Support Ban on Abortion
But Conservatives Still Question Nominee's Views
By Amy Goldstein and Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, October 19, 2005; Page A01
Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers once pledged that she would "actively support" a constitutional amendment banning abortions except to save a mother's life, participate in antiabortion rallies, and try to block the flow of public money to clinics and organizations that help women obtain the procedure.
Those 1989 written promises to an antiabortion group, made as she was campaigning for a seat on the Dallas City Council, came to light in documents that Miers delivered to the Senate yesterday. They emerged one day after she assured two senators that no one knows how she would vote on Roe v. Wade , the landmark case that legalized abortion nationwide.
President Bush nominated White House Counsel Harriet E. Miers to fill the Supreme Court seat of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Learn more about Miers's background and nomination.
Nominations to the High Court
Miers also disclosed that she was briefly suspended by the District of Columbia Bar recently for not paying her annual dues.
While providing the most definitive evidence to date that she has publicly opposed broad abortion rights, yesterday's disclosure did not appear to quell doubts among some conservatives that Miers, the White House counsel and a longtime friend of President Bush, is a sound choice to succeed retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor for a pivotal seat on the nation's highest court. Her attitude toward abortion has become a central issue in the controversy surrounding her rocky nomination to the court.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR2005101800715.html
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let's imagine, now, that Miers is confirmed. she joins the court. a few years from now, she and Roberts deliver on Bush's coded promises to "the base" and Roe v. Wade is essentially overturned, and abortion is now illegal in all 50 states except in the case where the life of the mother is in danger.
what are the consequences -- good or bad -- of making abortion illegal? what would this world look like? what would be different, what would be the same, and what would women do with unwanted pregnancies? how would they respond? if you are a woman, imagine yourself pregnant in a country where you cannot have an abortion. what would you do? would you have made different decisions, either before getting pregnant or aftewards?
i really don't want to get into an "abortion: right or wrong?" thread, but i am interested to know how people think of just how making abortion illegal would impact them personally.
both boys and girls. and homos.
discuss.
oh, a caveat: unacceptable responses would be -- "we'd live in a world where thousands of babies aren't slaughtered in a quotidian holocaust" or "women will be treated like cattle, bought and sold for their breeding capabilities."
let's consider the following:
[Q]Miers Once Vowed to Support Ban on Abortion
But Conservatives Still Question Nominee's Views
By Amy Goldstein and Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, October 19, 2005; Page A01
Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers once pledged that she would "actively support" a constitutional amendment banning abortions except to save a mother's life, participate in antiabortion rallies, and try to block the flow of public money to clinics and organizations that help women obtain the procedure.
Those 1989 written promises to an antiabortion group, made as she was campaigning for a seat on the Dallas City Council, came to light in documents that Miers delivered to the Senate yesterday. They emerged one day after she assured two senators that no one knows how she would vote on Roe v. Wade , the landmark case that legalized abortion nationwide.
President Bush nominated White House Counsel Harriet E. Miers to fill the Supreme Court seat of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Learn more about Miers's background and nomination.
Nominations to the High Court
Miers also disclosed that she was briefly suspended by the District of Columbia Bar recently for not paying her annual dues.
While providing the most definitive evidence to date that she has publicly opposed broad abortion rights, yesterday's disclosure did not appear to quell doubts among some conservatives that Miers, the White House counsel and a longtime friend of President Bush, is a sound choice to succeed retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor for a pivotal seat on the nation's highest court. Her attitude toward abortion has become a central issue in the controversy surrounding her rocky nomination to the court.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR2005101800715.html
[/Q]
let's imagine, now, that Miers is confirmed. she joins the court. a few years from now, she and Roberts deliver on Bush's coded promises to "the base" and Roe v. Wade is essentially overturned, and abortion is now illegal in all 50 states except in the case where the life of the mother is in danger.
what are the consequences -- good or bad -- of making abortion illegal? what would this world look like? what would be different, what would be the same, and what would women do with unwanted pregnancies? how would they respond? if you are a woman, imagine yourself pregnant in a country where you cannot have an abortion. what would you do? would you have made different decisions, either before getting pregnant or aftewards?
i really don't want to get into an "abortion: right or wrong?" thread, but i am interested to know how people think of just how making abortion illegal would impact them personally.
both boys and girls. and homos.
discuss.
oh, a caveat: unacceptable responses would be -- "we'd live in a world where thousands of babies aren't slaughtered in a quotidian holocaust" or "women will be treated like cattle, bought and sold for their breeding capabilities."
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