ACLU Concerned Over Alito and Abortion
Posted on October 31, 2005
“This is a pivotal moment in our nation’s history,” said Anthony D. Romero, the ACLU’s Executive Director. “The administration is claiming unprecedented national security powers, reproductive rights are in jeopardy, the teaching of evolution is under attack, and we continue to struggle with a legacy of discrimination.
“The Supreme Court remains the ultimate safeguard of our constitutional liberties. The Senate has an obligation to ensure that Judge Alito understands and will protect the court’s vital position in our constitutional democracy,” Romero added.
In the coming weeks, the ACLU will prepare a complete report on Judge Alito’s civil liberties record. The ACLU will not oppose a Supreme Court nominee without a vote of its national board. There have been only two nominees to the court opposed by the ACLU- then-Justice William Rehnquist and Robert Bork. The ACLU did not oppose Rehnquist’s elevation to chief justice in 1986.ACLU Website
Also: People For The American Way Attack Alito.
Hostile to basic reproductive privacy rights: Alito wants government to be able to interfere in personal decisions on reproductive rights. In Casey, Alito stated that he would have upheld a provision of Pennsylvania’s restrictive anti-abortion law requiring a woman in certain circumstances to notify her husband before obtaining an abortion. His colleagues on the Third Circuit and the Supreme Court majority disagreed and overturned the provision.
Translation: Killing babies without any restriction is top priority for leftwing special interest groups. They are scared to death over this nominee. Abortion will be the main topic, worded as women’s rights. The democrats will look out for this, it being one of the things they hold dear to their hearts. Its gonna get very ugly!
Update: NARAL are screaming bloody murder too! As well as N.O.W. and Moveon.org
MoveOn will mobilize its 3.3 million members in a campaign to urge Senators
to oppose his confirmation.“By nominating someone who regularly sides with big corporations against the
rights of ordinary Americans, the President chose a man who passes all of
the right-wing litmus tests,” said Ben Brandzel, Advocacy Director of
MoveOn.org Political Action
What a wonderful nominee!
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You gotta see this video where Chris Matthews gets caught passing talking points to bash Alito over at The Political Teen
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I hope it does get ugly. Its time the Republicans act like a majority and get some stuff accomplished. The illegalization of abortion would be awesome.
“Killing babies without any restriction is top priority for leftwing special interest groups”
Well here’s the weird thing… if we outlaw abortion, there will be a lot more abortions, a lot more injured and dead mothers, and a lot more crime. Just like when we outlawed alcohol and when we outlawed narcotics and pot.
Or have we won the War on Drugs now? The only way we are making any progress against drugs is by social programs, not government control of our lives.
How is prohibition going to help us stop the horrors of abortion?
And why do Conservatives want government intervention in individuals’ lives?
Shouldn’t efforts be focused on adoption, access to healthcare, and (gasp!) sex education??
If your goal really is to stop the deaths of babies, then you’d be willing to do these things, and not focus on the hopeless task of prohibition.
Well, these comments should shore up support for Judge Alito. . .OK, not from Kennedy or Schimer but, from at least 51 other Senators!
Alito never talked about outlawing it, even though it should be. Prohibiting murder should be our moral duty. He just ruled that husbands should be informed of this kind of decision, what is wrong with that. And why do the left advocate “unrestricted” abortion? Why do you think it shouldn’t have any kind of restrictions?
Sorry Joe, but abortion was illegal before, and now the burden of proof is on you to show us how the illegalization of abortion attributed to more abortions, more crime, and more dead mothers. That is pure spin. Second, social programs is classic liberal lingo for having the governmnent pay for it. Tax-payer money should not go to social programs such as sex education. Try abstinence. It works better. Half of the remedies you described are not the government’s job. The government’s job is to protect its citizens, and yes that includes unborn babies. Until liberals can prove that a fetus is not a human than they have no right not to err on the side of caution. Its ludicrous that liberals want to abolish the death penalty on the off chance that innocents might die, yet they are perfectly willing to keep legal the murder of children we know for a fact didn’t break any laws.
Amen Apostle!
“Amen Apostle!”
Careful! The ACLU may be monitering your site as we speak, and Christian lingo like that can get you sued. Something my brother eluded to once occured to me while I was posting: The Left are opposed to private accounts in reference to social security. Yet they push legal abortions. Anyone else see the insult? We are too dumb, and not men enough to make sure our families and ourselves are provided for. We are incapable of understanding the economy, stock market, etc. But we are so infinitely wise that we can make life and death decisions concerning the life of an unborn fetus.
“Well here’s the weird thing… if we outlaw abortion, there will be a lot more abortions, a lot more injured and dead mothers, and a lot more crime. Just like when we outlawed alcohol and when we outlawed narcotics and pot.”
The difference is that those who drink, smoke weed, and so forth are not directly harming others, and if they do they’re already liable for it.
Saying that outlawing abortions will cause more women who seek abortions to die is like saying that allowing legal self-defense will cause more attempted murderers to die. We would care about this why?
Well here’s the weird thing… if we outlaw abortion, there will be a lot more abortions, a lot more injured and dead mothers, and a lot more crime. Just like when we outlawed alcohol and when we outlawed narcotics and pot.
Apples and oranges there chief. So where is your statistical data that abortions would increase if outlawed? I’m sure they increased after Roe v. Wade. Killin’ unborn babies is wrong whether you call it “reproductive rights” or “right to chose” or whatever. If it wasn’t, you libs wouldn’t pussyfoot around, you’d actually say “I’m pro-abortion.”
Dang you get a lot of trackbacks Jay.
ACLU hit a home run when Ginsberg got in. Lightning won’t strike twice. Note to ACLU- STFU!
And as WE all *KNOW* an ‘unborn fetus’ is a human. WE know this because OUR religion teaches US this. Because WE are all Christians. Oh, right, some of YOU are non-Christian-godless-heathens. YOU are wrong. WE are right. WE will impose our religion on YOU. That is because America is based on the whole idea of state-based religion. Official government sanctioned religion. So if you are not a Christian, you are not a REAL American. So get out! (oh hey, why did the Pilgrims come here in the first place, hmm… don’t remember….?!?!)
“If it wasn’t, you libs wouldn’t pussyfoot around, you’d actually say “I’m pro-abortion.””
I am anti-abortion, as you could have found out if you had actually read what I posted.
I see numerous responses to my post, but NOT ONE mentioning that if you were really concerned with stopping the deaths of babies, you’d be working on social programs to stop abortion, instead of trying to open the door to get the government to control every aspect of our lives.
WHY DON’T YOU SUPPORT ADOPTION PROGRAMS, FREE HEALTHCARE FOR MOTHERS AND BABIES, AND SEX EDUCATION? Why this focus on government control of our lives instead?
Are your “morals” so skewed that you’d rather see a teenage girl get pregnant and have an abortion then actually teach her how not to get pregnant?
“Saying that outlawing abortions will cause more women who seek abortions to die is like saying that allowing legal self-defense will cause more attempted murderers to die. We would care about this why?”
Because a VERY large percentage of “women” who get abortions are teenage daughters of pro-lifers.
Idiot.
You’d like to see your own daughter go to a back alley and have a criminal shove a coat hanger up her and dig the fetus out?
You’d prefer that to teaching her about sex, providing her healthcare, and letting her know that adoption is an option?
Idiot.
No, you are the idiot. If a teenage daughter of a pro-life father got pregnant, the pro-life father would want her to have the baby. Idiot.
You talk about government controlling aspects of our life…whats the difference if tax payers are forced to pay this supposed “free” healthcare. Nothing is free, idiot.
As for sex education, I am totally for this, and it should focus on abstinence. It should focus on the diseases out there, and how “other things” besides sex can bring those about.
I think its wonderful that all you libs in here have a lot of names to call people, but have no facts. Keep it up, it wins us elections. First of all, IDIOTS, you don’t have to be a Christian to be pro-life, and keeping abortion legal is just as much imposing faith as the other way around. Because you only BELIEVE that a fetus is not human. IDIOT. I’ll also add that anyone that thinks my daughter or anyone else’s daughter will get a back-alley abortion, or even have premarital sex is an IDIOT. We conservatives can teach our own kids about sex, we have a set of balls that says we can provide for our own families, and don’t need the government to do everything for us. I also see that the evidence I asked for is not forthcoming, like proof that abortions were so rampant when they were illegal. I also see that you ignored my response that social programs, healthcare, and all this other stuff you want the government to pay for, don’t work. Its up to parents to teach their children about sex, and I’m not paying tax money so you can supply your kids with condoms, which will eventually break, they’ll get pregnant, go on welfare, and I got to spend the rest of my tax-paying life supporting them because you’re too lazy to teach your kids. What your asking for healthcare is also economically impossible, as Canada’s economy is on the verge of collapse due to their universal healthcare. Come with facts next time instead of insults. You don’t have to be Christian, but since you can’t prove that a fetus is a human, and we can’t prove it is, it is better to be CAUTIOUS. Especially since the “right to privacy” DOESN’T EXIST! If you’d rather have legal abortions, there is a third-world country just north of you, where there is universal healthcare that the government can’t afford, doctors that move to America so they actually can get paid, emergancy rooms that close for the weekend, second-highest suicide rate in the world, more starving kids in Halifax than anywhere else on the planet, gay/lesbian marriages…shall I go on? Home sweet home to you guys huh? Maybe, since abortion is so high, suicide is so high, and the ones that aren’t are gay, the whole country will be dead by the year 2010.
First of all IDIOTS, we conservatives no how to be parents, therefore our daughters won’t be in any back alley. But then, we believe in educating our children about sex ourselves, because we are adults, and don’t need the government to do everything for us. If your daughter’s are little ho bags than that is your problem, you can take care of them. But I don’t want to be robbed of my tax money so that your kids can be supplied with condoms, which will break, they’ll end up pregnant, go on welfare, and I’ll spend the rest of my tax paying life supporting them because you are too lazy to be parents and would rather have the government do it, or just kill the fetus. You don’t have to be Christian either, by the way, to be pro-life. I love how all you “tolerant” liberals stereotype. It is a matter of caution. I can’t prove a fetus to be a human? Can you prove it isn’t? Than what is wrong with being cautious? I see your remedy is for more social programs, once again alleviating yourself from any responsibility. Good call. Wish we could all be that reckless.
>> If a teenage daughter of a
>> pro-life father got pregnant,
>> the pro-life father would want
>> her to have the baby.
…and therefore Jay, who claims to be a RepubliKKKlan, says the Supreme Court should overturn RVW, so the government can FORCE the girl to have an abortion. That is because RepubliKKKlans SAY they are for small government, but when it comes to social issues, REPUBLICANS ARE THE PARTY OF BIG GOVERNMENT.
Oh, and don’t RepubliKKKlans believe it is WRONG to “Legislate from the Bench??” Don’t the RepubliKKKlans have control of the House, Senate and White House?? WHY DON’T THEY PASS A LAW ****TODAY**** rather than have the Supreme Court legislate from the bench?!?!?!?!?!?!?
“First of all IDIOTS, we conservatives no how to be parents, therefore our daughters won’t be in any back alley.”
BWA HA HA HA!!!!!
You must be the most deluded person ever!!!
You really think kids of conservatives act all prim and proper all the time? Wow are you delusional.
Ever heard of a couple of drug-doing, party-going, heavy-drinking blonde bimbos known as the… Bush Twins? They are just one stellar example of how kids turn out when raised by conservatives.
Remember the study that came out earlier this year that showed that good Christian children who took oaths of abstinence were MANY TIMES more likely to engage in oral and anal sex?
And if you delusional people actually think that your conservative-raised daughters are going to TELL YOU if they get pregnant, you are out of their minds. Where do you think all those laws about consent and parental non-notification come from?
P.S. If you’re going to call someone an “IDIOT,” you could at least learn how to spell “know.” Idiot.
Now be nice, LiberalRepubliKlanNaziSlayer… they’re not RepubliKKKlans. These days they’re known as “Republicriminals.”
That’s because ALL (as in 100%) of their leadership are various combinations of CRIMINALS, WAR CRIMINALS, and TRAITORS.
Here are some shining examples:
President Lying Draft-Dodging Treasonous Warmonger Bush
Vice President Draft-Dodging Treasonous Liar Cheney
Defense Secretary Draft-Dodging Incompetent Lying War-Criminal Rumsfeld
Secretary of State Incompetent Treasonous Liar Rice
Deputy Defense Secretary Draft-Dodging Incompetent War-Criminal Wolfowitz
Deputy Chief of Staff Draft-Dodging Treasonous Liar Rove
Vice Presidential Chief of Staff Draft-Dodging Treasonous Liar Libby
Speaker of the House Heartless Draft-Dodger Hastert
Senate Majority Leader Draft-Dodging Insider-Trading Frist
Deposed House Majority Leader Draft-Dodging Money-Laundering DeLay
Deposed Senate Majority Leader Draft-Dodging Racist Lott
Word of advice, before criticizing someone on spelling, check your own grammar.
you are out of their minds????
Okay Archie, you will now prove all the claims you just made. If not, shut up and let the grown-ups talk. Typical liberal. Spend your time insulting conservatives while we win all the elections.
“Okay Archie, you will now prove all the claims you just made.”
How much proof do you need?
It is a matter of record that every single Republican leader is a draft dodger. These are the same people who are mismanaging the war in Iraq so horribly, and it’s no wonder, since they have never seen battle before.
It is a matter of record that Libby and his higher-ups deliberately falsified evidence in order to start a war. Statements by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and others are clearly contradicted by later revelations (revelations to us, but old news to these people). This isn’t a misreading of the intelligence… they LIED to us. Period.
It is a matter of record that every member of the Republican leadership lied to the American people about WMDs in Iraq.
It is a matter of record that DeLay is charged with money laundering to skew elections in Texas and thus to gerrymander a Republican majority in the Texas caucus.
The charges of treason are not exactly a matter of record yet, but the proof is quite obvious. Lying to the American people in order to start a unilateral war of aggression against a sovereign nation resulting in the deaths of thousands of American boys and girls for the sole purpose of making oil executives like Bush, Cheney, and Rice richer is TREASON. Period.
How can you demand proof of what is so obvious and so easy to learn about? All I can imagine is that you get all your “news” from FoxNews, and thus have no idea of what is actually going on in the world. Right?
Oh, and it is a matter of record that Rumsfeld, Cheney, and gang are in favor of torture and have ordered torture of Iraqis, Afghanis, and others in direct contradiction to the Geneva convention.
We have a word for people like this. It is WAR CRIMINALS.
Do you need me to post the URLs for you? Have you never heard of this?
apostle…
“The illegalization of abortion would be awesome.”
Abortion will not become illegal. Should SCOTUS overturn R V Wade, it will be returned to the states where it rightfully was before R V Wade.
I know abortion is a topic in the US that seperates a lot of people. I have written a post about it in my blog, but I want to say something here first, before I want to trackback that blog to this post here. I don’t think abortion a good thing, and I think under normal circumstances I would not consider it an option for me, but I still believe it should be a person’s personal right whether they will have a child or not.
Okay Archie, now prove it. Show me the records that Bush LIED. Show me the records where every single Republican is a draft dodger. Show me where the right to privacy is even in the Constitution. Show me the record that more abortions happen in Christian families. Show me the record that proves how many back alley abortions were done before it became legal. You can’t. There is no right to privacy defined in the Constitution. You have no facts. You liberals just want for society to be able to do whatever it wants, regardless of the consequences, and if you had your way you’d eliminate those consequences. If you don’t want your daughter to have a baby teach her to keep her legs closed. Despite what you liberals think, we conservatives actually give our children more credit than you. They actually will listen to good parenting. You liberals are great at insulting people. We are too dumb to understand the stock market. Our kids will have sex no matter what we do. Hey, you know what? Murder will continue to happen until we legalize it. Rape will happen until we legalize. Lets just throw the whole law out and that will make everyone safe. Your idea of Heaven huh? No thanks. If you want your kids to be able to have risk-free sex than you pay for their condoms and you pay for their education and you pay for their welfare. Don’t splash on me.