Alito's Mom: 'Of Course, He's Against Abortion'

[sabra]

http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/politics/5211818/detail.html

Alito's Mom: 'Of Course, He's Against Abortion'

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Abortion emerged as a potential fault line. Democrats pointed to Alito's rulings that sought to restrict a woman's right to abortion. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, a Republican who supports abortion rights, said that Alito's views on the hot-button issue "will be among one of the first items Judge Alito and I will discuss."

Alito's mother shed some light. "Of course, he's against abortion," 90-year-old Rose Alito said of her son, a Catholic.

[deadparrot]

1. Wasn't Specter just fawning over Alito earlier today? nt

[wtmusic]

2. Tell it like it is, Rose

We just want to know the truth. Of course, good Catholics don't lie either...

[leetrisck]

3. I don't know anyone that is "for abortion"

I know lots of people that believe in choice.

[XNGH]

13. choice

There are many pro-choice people against abortion

[journalist3072]

17. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

No one is out there advocating for abortion. No one is telling all the women of child-bearing age "Go forth and have your abortions."

It's about a women's right to make her own choices regarding her health. It's as simple as that.

[melissinha]

4. Its like non right wingers are not in the discussion

They are so busy pandering to the right that they are saying and pushing things that don't sit too well with the swing voters.... This desperation is catching up to them........

[readmoreoften]

5. Rose Alito was my grammar school principal.

It's so terrifying to me, but Alito's mother was my grammar school principal. I was actually one of her pet projects. She pushed me hard because I was the school's top student, but she despised me because I was anti-authoritarian and strange even at a young age.

God, the woman that terrorized my childhood is going to take away my right to have an abortion. Life is too weird.

[Sequoia]

6. Strange indeed! What a very small world.

Did ya git a whuppin'?

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7. They had no right to corporal punishment in NJ

Mrs. Alito and I had a weird relationship. She believed in my intelligence and demanded that I be put in gifted classes, competitions, etc. She almost acted as a mentor to me in a strange way. But she absolutely flipped out about my personality. She liked that I made the school look good, but she couldn't stand me as an individual. I remember her and my grammar school teachers telling me that I had to stop thinking that "it is good to be different" and I had to stop acting so strangely. She was a tiny little stern woman.

I remember hearing about her darling son. He stopped by a few times.

[Reverend_Smitty]

10. Her "darling son" graduated from my high school

however this was many years before I was even born, I'm beginning to wonder what is up with the Trenton area and douche bag conservative judges...first Scalia now this guy

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16. Yeah, me too?

What high school did he go to? I went to HHW, then Notre Dame. It makes perfect sense to me. I've always felt that Trenton was a viciously conservative area, particularly where it came to race and abortion.

Here's proof that we need to evaluate this red-state/blue-state thing.

[Reverend_Smitty]

20. I went to Steinert

crazy conservative Senator Bob Smith also graduated from Steinert. Trenton is a heavily Catholic area, but hey I'm Catholic and I'm the complete opposite of them

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24. I went to Hamilton West.

Rose Alito was my principal at Lalor over on the other side of town.

[hogwyld]

18. Did they grow up

around the same chemical plant?

[manic expression]

22. It seems that NJ and douche bag judges

and ridiculous courts go hand in hand.

There is a 15-16 year old girl who is serving a MINIMUM 60 year sentence in NJ. She'll be 75 when she gets out. :puke:
(that was straight out of a NJ prison official's mouth)

We had 4 inmates come to our HS as part of "Red Ribbon Week", to show us about what happens when people do drugs...:eyes:. Every story was full of injustice on the part of society and the system of punishment that we have. Judges will screw you over and nail you to the wall for the most ludicrous of charges, and the poverty and hopelessness of our cities is the biggest problem, as it causes so many good people to get in horrible situations in the first place. It made me positively sick.

NJ's judicial system and laws are as ridiculous as they are disgusting. People are serving HARD time for very minor actions.

[chelsea0011]

8. did she ever bring her son to school?

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12. A few times. He was an adult already.

Yeah, I remember him coming by the school. He was talked about all the time. My parents talked about him too (and not in a flattering way.) Mrs. Alito fawned over him.

She was my principal from 1976-1982 so this was a very long time ago. It's strange for me because "Mrs. Alito" was a household word for me growing up. One of those words that's so familiar that the letters all slur together.

When I left the school, she told my mother that she feared for me. She said, "Well, I don't know how your daughter is going to deal with being a small fish in a big pond instead of a big fish in a small pond." I pondered on that all through my childhood. It made me think that she was an idiot-- why would the stature of my intelligence and worth change because the size of the world changed. She turned out to be wrong. I'm a big fish in a big pond. Part of the reason why is that I've been struggling against folks like her my whole life.

But, then again, maybe the pond isn't so big.

[chelsea0011]

15. Jeesh! Nice to graduate and be told you gonna get eaten alive.

[WI_DEM]

11. Are you saying she pushed you to hard to succeed

and she terrorized you? in what way did she terrorize you. Also, it's not her that may take away your right to have an abortion it would be her son.

[readmoreoften]

14. No, she terrorized me.

She pushed me hard to succeed, but she also commented on my weight, humiliated me, and tried to get me to be a 'normal girl'. She thought I was weird and told me so. She was always pissed off that I was smart and had high test scores, but wasn't very *presentable* as a child. I was a tomboy and a loudmouth.

As as far as her taking away my right to have an abortion...guess where he got those ideas???? Rose Alito is a little pro-life, conservative woman and always was.

[WI_DEM]

9. Well Justice Powell was "against abortion" too

and he wrote the landmark decision re: Roe v Wade (and he was a Catholic too), but Alito's record on the issue is not reassuring.

[Zynx]

19. I thought Blackmun wrote the Roe opinion.

[dflprincess]

21. Blackmun did write

The funny thing was, William Douglas, as the senior justice in the majority should have been given the decision to write but Burger was afraid of how far Douglas would go. Blackmun spent most the summer at the Mayo Clinic libraries (he had been a lawyer for Mayo) researching the subject and came up with pretty much the opinion Burger had been worried Douglas would write.

[VegasWolf]

23. Of course he is. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson would not have forced

Bush to nominate him otherwise.