(NY Gov) Spitzer: Cusp of Losing Roe v. Wade

[brooklynite]

Source: WCBS

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Gov. Eliot Spitzer, maintaining that "we are on the cusp of losing Roe v. Wade," pledged Monday he would press to keep abortion legal in New York.

Democrat Spitzer, addressing the annual conference of the abortion-rights supporting Family Planning Advocates, said President Bush's appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court put the 34-year-old landmark abortion rights decision in danger of being overturned.

And, while Spitzer noted abortion has been legal even longer in New York, he said the state's laws needed to be updated.

"They do not go far enough and so we will make it our vision this term, this year to expand New York's law to give us all the protections that are necessary," he said, a pledge that drew cheers from the hundreds at the conference.

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[youngdem]

1. I sure hope this man will be our next Attorney General under Obama

[brooklynite]

2. Not sure we want to give him up.....

[youngdem]

3. I hear you

What are his plans? Is he gonna run in '12?

I love that man. He's doing so much good, and there is SO much more he can do in NY.


Good on you guys. I'm sure it feels like somoeone took the pillow off your face after Pataki.

[jelly]

4. Wouldn't that be wonderful!!

One of the experiences I am most proud of is interning for Spitzer a few summers ago; he continues to inspire me to this day. He is highly capable but also (and to me, just as importantly) a man of integrity, a combination in short supply among our elected officials today. I can't imagine anyone better suited for the position of AG.

[jelly]

5. -

[Divine Discontent]

7. I hope he is, also!

under President Edwards.
www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <<--- check it out

[rodeodance]

12. nice.

[HockeyMom]

6. A lot at stake

especially since now the religious right is even calling birth control pills "abortifacients". We now have states declaring that the right to life begins at fertilization, not implantation. In the rare cases that implantation may be prevented with contraceptives, would this fall under the abortion ban too? Talk about opening a Pandora's Box.

I lived in New York before the Roe decision. Yes, it was legal here and not legal in New Jersey then. So the women from New Jersey, who wanted an abortion, just crossed the state line and came to New York. I can remember that the State of New Jersey was very p'od about all this. Cannot prevent interstate travel, ya know. Besides, there simply was no way of knowing. Don't these people understand that this will happen all over again? Women with bus fare, a car, the money for a plane ticket, etc, will go to a state where it is legal. And many states WILL still keep it legal.

Anyway, my hats off to my Governor. Keep it up and keep your other campaign promise for the rights of our gay citizens also.

[Divine Discontent]

8. I agree with you

the religiofascists are out of control with their naming everything. I'm a devout Christian, through my born again in Christ belief, but I'm also gay, and even though some of these people think that's ok, there's a chunk that want to judge me that I'm choosing to live a lifestyle (I have no partner anyhow, but it's none of their business when I discuss with detractors), and so when I read them going hardcore over naming things like abortifacients and stuff like that, and getting too far down everyone's pants, I get nauseated.

God bless you.
www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <<--- top 08 and Antib&sh stuff!

[jelly]

9. "And many states WILL still keep it legal."

I think you're right, at least for the foreseeable future (next 100 years or so), which helps to alleviate the doomsday feelings that come over me when I contemplate the approaching demise of Roe v. Wade. On the other hand, that fact poses little comfort for poor women in remote areas, without the means to travel long distances. What will they do. I suppose we can expect a Renaissance of the back alley abortion.

[youngdem]

10. That's ok...I call them 'AbortiFACISTS'

[gulfcoastliberal]

11. You think states still have rights?

The supreme court has ruled they do not, re: medical marijuana. They decided Federal regulations trumped the state. The "war on drugs" is the precedent for more invasive authoritarianism. Look at how they seize peoplesmoney and property. They've even decided that if your money smells like drugs (which most does), your money can be seized by the state even if they find no drugs or other evidence on your person or property.

[HockeyMom]

13. For a while

These people are shrewd, if nothing else. They know that overturning Roe will "only" mean some individual states will ban abortion. Many others will keep the status quo (California, New York for example).

If they get control of government again, they will pass FEDERAL laws to trump these states rights.

Another reason why they must never gain complete control of our government.

[jelly]

14. The feds don't have constitutional standing to regulate abortion, do they?!

Absent constitutional protection as established by Roe v. Wade, abortion falls into the same category as, say, marriage: family matters reserved for the states to decide. I'd love to see them try to shoehorn abortion under the interstate commerce clause.

On the other hand, nothing's to stop the feds from introducing financial incentives to coerce, I mean, convince, the states to ban abortion of their own accord. Kind of like they did with the legal drinking age.