Re: Kerry Could Appoint Anti-Abortion Judges

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Lou posted:

> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> > Will liberal feminist organizations such as Planned Parenthood,
> > NARAL, and NOW continue to give the Democratic Party a blank check?
>
> Why not? If this didn't stop them, nothing will.
>
> The New York Times
> October 23, 2003 Thursday
>
> Bill Barring Abortion Procedure Drew on Backing From Many Friends of
> Roe v. Wade
>
> BYLINE: By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
>
> Senator Blanche Lincoln, Democrat of Arkansas, considers herself
> decidedly in favor of a woman's right to abortion. "I'm about 99
> percent pro-choice," she says.
>
> On Tuesday, she voted the other 1 percent.
>
> Ms. Lincoln was among 17 Democratic senators, many of them strong
> advocates of abortion rights, who voted to ban the procedure that
> critics call partial-birth abortion. Their votes were not a
> surprise: most had voted to forbid the procedure several times
> before, as had many abortion rights proponents in the House.

The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that the defense of
Roe v. Wade has become not the means of defending the right to
abortion but, paradoxically as it may seem, the best way of
curtailing the right and limiting access to abortion.
--
Yoshie

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