Miers Supported Ban on Most Abortions

[goofygirl]

It is great that so many support the individual rights of the unborn.

Can't you support the rights of the unborn without making abortion illegal and jeopardizing the rights of millions of women?

 

[crcormier]

I thought there was no litmus test?

 

[cardaway]

I thought there was no litmus test?

Don't tell me you believed that.

 

[MrsNick]

I have never heard of any unborn being having legal rights. I do know that women have legal rights.

 

[eclectics]

I would find this reassuring also. At least she's not espousing judicial activism.

I don't care what anyone says, she still makes me very nervous. I can't see Rove and Bush nominating someone that they both aren't very, very, very, comfortable with. That said, I sure wouldn't mind being pleasantly surprised at a later date.

 

[crcormier]

I don't care what anyone says, she still makes me very nervous. I can't see Rove and Bush nominating someone that they both aren't very, very, very, comfortable with. That said, I sure wouldn't mind being pleasantly surprised at a later date.

She wasn't nominated for her stance on abortion. She was nominated because she is a corporate attorney and will represent corporate interests in the court (as John Roberts does) and her position on abortion, either pro or con, wasn't even a consideration.

 

[dennis99ss]

crcormier is right.

I think she is a behind the doors moderate, at a minimum. Is she qualified, NO. I don't know if I like her or not, but, a woman, in a man's world, who has been on her own for her entire professional career, has to have some feminism in her. Possibly a conservative on business issues, and more liberal on social issues. Isn't that what Bush is anyway?

 

[JMD]

Even more reason to support her nomination!

Agreed.

 

[goofygirl]

I have never heard of any unborn being having legal rights. I do know that women have legal rights.

So why take those legal rights away from women?



Also, when a pregnant woman is murdered, it counts as a double homicide, so an unborn baby has legal representation in that respect.

 

[eclectics]

She wasn't nominated for her stance on abortion. She was nominated because she is a corporate attorney and will represent corporate interests in the court (as John Roberts does) and her position on abortion, either pro or con, wasn't even a consideration.

I'm sure that is true. It's not just Roe V Wade that makes me nervous. There will be quite a few other issues that I will have my fingers crossed for. As I said, we shall have to wait and see.

 

[JMD]

So why take those legal rights away from women?

What about the rights of the child?


There is no more inherent, fundamental right, then the right to life. That should come before everything else.

 

[crcormier]

crcormier is right.

I think she is a behind the doors moderate, at a minimum. Is she qualified, NO. I don't know if I like her or not, but, a woman, in a man's world, who has been on her own for her entire professional career, has to have some feminism in her. Possibly a conservative on business issues, and more liberal on social issues. Isn't that what Bush is anyway?

No, she isn't qualified. But what is problematic to me as much as the court favoring the corporation over the citizen is also the fact that as Bush's personal attorney she will be in a position where she will have to recuse herself from any cases from the administration. But will she?

 

[eclectics]

crcormier is right.

I think she is a behind the doors moderate, at a minimum. Is she qualified, NO. I don't know if I like her or not, but, a woman, in a man's world, who has been on her own for her entire professional career, has to have some feminism in her. Possibly a conservative on business issues, and more liberal on social issues. Isn't that what Bush is anyway?

Bush is liberal leaning on social issues? Did I miss something?

 

[noseybuddy]

What about the rights of the child?


There is no more inherent, fundamental right, then the right to life. That should come before everything else.

No one should have the right to tell a women what she can and cannot do with her body.

 

[DawnCt1]

Can't you support the rights of the unborn without making abortion illegal and jeopardizing the rights of millions of women?

How?? It sounds like a contradiction to me.

 

[JMD]

No one should have the right to tell a women what she can and cannot do with her body.

This statement is entirely incorrect. The government tells you what you can and cannot do with your body every single day.

Do you also support the legalization of prostitution? Because the government tells women that they can't sell their body's for sex. Why not? Its their body.

The government tells you can't take certain drugs. You can't smoke or drink under certain ages. Why not, its your body, right?

 

[noseybuddy]

No one should have the right to murder a child either!

Well if your child was raped, would you still want her to have the baby? I wouldn't. I feel strongly that people should practice birth control to prevent unnecessary abortions, but if something like rape happens, or the child is going to have severe medical problems then I believe that everyone should have the right to choose.

 

[JoBird]

So why take those legal rights away from women?



Also, when a pregnant woman is murdered, it counts as a double homicide, so an unborn baby has legal representation in that respect.

How can you call the child in utero an "unborn BABY" and yet support the legalized MURDER of so many? Aren't you glad YOUR mother didn't choose a death sentence for YOU?

 

[JMD]

Well if your child was raped, would you still want her to have the baby?

Yes. How does the circumstances of the child's conception make that child any less special. Any less your son or daughter or grandchild. Rape is a horrible, horrible thing to go through, no question. But killing the baby doesn't make it go away.

or the child is going to have severe medical problems then I believe that everyone should have the right to choose.

Be careful where you go with this arguement. No one should have the right to choose who lives and who doesn't.

 

[goofygirl]

How can you call the child in utero an "unborn BABY" and yet support the legalized MURDER of so many? Aren't you glad YOUR mother didn't choose a death sentence for YOU?

Actually my mother didn't have a CHOICE! It was 1969, and abortion was still illegal.
It just so happened that she wanted a child. If she didn't, she would have had to have a backalley abortion, and we probably would have BOTH died!

Legal abortion IS pro-life! Making it illegal would mean DEATH to many woman AND their unborn!