11/30/2005

A Womans' Rights

A recent Wall Street Journal article reveals a document showing that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito advocated using state laws to erode or overturn abortion rights, which is expected to intensify the debate over his nomination. “The Alito memo was released with dozens of others from the National Archives”. Senate hearings are scheduled to open early next month and activists on both sides of the debate are trying to decide whether he would try to steer the court toward overturning Roe, the landmark 1973 ruling granting federal abortion rights. I don’t think that the courts should be making these decisions for women, if a woman doesn’t want to be a mother she shouldn’t be one despite circumstances.

2 comments:

Dr. Tufte said...

What does this to do with ManEc?

Technically speaking, the courts are not supposed to deal with issues like this in the first place. This is what we have legislatures for.

But, it is in the interest of legislators to avoid tough decisions, and they find ways to do this.

Dr. Tufte said...

-1 on Frank's comment - since this could have been included in the post (for which you did get credit).