Bye-bye Equality, Bye-bye freedom over your own body.

[texastoast]

I posted this on GD-Politics earlier, but this forum is much more lively right now. YOUNG WOMEN, please take up this fight. You WILL regret it the rest of your fucking life if you do not. And so will your daughters and sons. This is HUGELY important. Call YOUR senators first thing tomorrow. Call mine too and give them some shit, especially Kay. If you have never really participated, this is the one to start on.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm


Just got off the phone with Senator Kay Bailey's office. She plans to vote for Roberts.

You know, there was a time when this woman would NOT have done such a thing. I have no hope for her vote or for Senator Cornhole's, but everyone in Texas needs to call their offices (especially Kay's), and ask why she is voting for someone who would demolish the very environment that allowed her to rise to her current position.

Here's her number. Give her hell. Damn it.

Kay Bailey Hutchison
202-224-5922


John Cornyn
202-224-2934


John Roberts dodged question after question concerning reproductive rights.


SPECTER: "Well, do you see any erosion of precedent as to Roe?"


ROBERTS: "Well, again, I think I should stay away from discussions of particular issues that are likely to come before the court again. And in the area of abortion, there are cases on the courts docket, of course. It is an issue that does come before the court."


BIDEN: " ... I asked ...Justice Ginsburg the question of whether or not it would be a ball or a strike if in fact a state passed a law, a state passed a law prohibiting abortion...


"And she said... 'Abortion prohibition by a state controls women and denies them full autonomy and full equality with men. It would be unconstitutional.'


"What is your view, according to the Ginsburg rule?"


ROBERTS: "Well, that is in an area where I think I should not respond ..."


FEINSTEIN: "Do you then believe that this implied right of privacy applies to the beginning of life and the end of life?"


ROBERTS: "... the exact scope of it, with respect to the beginning of life and the end of life, those are issues that are coming before the court in both respects, and I don't think that I should go further to elaborate upon whether or not it applies in those particular situations."


Roberts consistently declined to clarify his position, and we now firmly believe that his confirmation will jeopardize women’s health and rights. He must be opposed.

[yankeedem]

1. Kay Bailey's got hers

Why should she care about anyone else?