Hillary's statement on Supreme Court abortion ruling

[ElizabethDC]

"This decision marks a dramatic departure from four decades of Supreme Court rulings that upheld a woman's right to choose and recognized the importance of women's health. Today's decision blatantly defies the Court's recent decision in 2000 striking down a state partial-birth abortion law because of its failure to provide an exception for the health of the mother. As the Supreme Court recognized in Roe v. Wade in 1973, this issue is complex and highly personal; the rights and lives of women must be taken into account. It is precisely this erosion of our constitutional rights that I warned against when I opposed the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito."

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/blog/view/?id=4167

[Olney Blue]

1. Thank you, Senator Clinton.

[Captain_Nemo]

2. Excellent.

[rodeodance]

3. GReat except she should have said Intact D & C --NOT partial-birth as that

is not even a medical term----it is only used by the RW

[tblue]

7. What rodeodance said. Stop using their terminology, Hill!

[AtomicKitten]

11. I agree.

It is a misnomer meant to incite opposition.

[rodeodance]

4. deserves a big REC

[alstephenson]

5. Well written statement. Thanks, Hillary!

[Colobo]

6. Well said, Hillary!

[Tellurian]

8. A very sad day indeed..

when politics have entered the privacy between doctor and female patient.

Thanks, for posting, ElizabethDC and Senator Clinton for your supportive statement.

[Colobo]

9. Check out Obama's statement

Very good too!

[ElizabethDC]

15. Yes, I'm glad they've both spoken out about this

it's so important.

[mloutre]

10. "The rights and lives of women must be taken into account." Those of men, too.

Anybody who talks about abortion as though it only impacts women is either deaf, blind, or stupid. Although it is true that many men duck the pregnancy/fatherhood responsibility as soon as it comes up, the majority of them do not. It's a shared decision and a shared heartache that stays with both the almost-mother and the almost-father for the rest of their lives.

I wrote an essay addressing that point from personal experience a little earlier; it's too long to put into a comment, though, so I gave it its own post instead:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x694683

I don't know anyone, man or woman, who ever *wants* to have an abortion. For some, though, it's the only alternative at the time. That's why it needs to be safe, rare, AND legal. Period.

[Colobo]

12. Excellent post.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

16. I used to be married to one who WANTED me to have an abortion.

We were married. Had been for a few months. The minute I told him I was pregnant he told me to get an abortion. I went into shock and told him if he didn't like it he could leave. And I sat there and cried for the next three hours.

That child is now grown and the light of my life. He hit me up for child support for many years when I had no money, and couldn't find a job, to punish me for having the child anyway. Later he said I "trapped" him. That's kinda hard to do when you're already married.

[Morgana LaFey]

18. You got stats on that?

the majority of them do not.

I've just come from reading your remarkable personal account, for which I salute you. But please -- don't make like this isn't MOSTLY an issue affecting women. Just don't. You're to be commended for your participation and support, but you really don't know what other women routinely go through or how common your own involvement really is (clue: not much).

And I'll also take exception to this, as well:
That's why it needs to be safe, rare, AND legal. Period.

No, it needs to be nobody else's goddamned business. Period.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

23. You must be joking

You cannot seriously be claiming that more than 50% of men "duck the pregnancy/fatherhood responsibility as soon as it comes up"?

I doubt there *are* any stats on that, for the same reason that nobody has ever bothered to gather stats on whether or not grass is green.

[Morgana LaFey]

24. Not joking at ALL. Let me put it this way

There's a better chance I'm right than the bloke who posted this nonsense:

Although it is true that many men duck the pregnancy/fatherhood responsibility as soon as it comes up, the majority of them do not.

I'm talking about for unplanned, crisis pregnancies. In most marriages, no -- I would think most men are fine, tho some are definitely not (women who are victims of spousal abuse are at more risk when they're pregnant which seems to make their abusing mates more likely to beat them and kick them in the belly and stuff).

[MichiganVote]

26. Thank you. Abortion, none of anyone else's business. Period.

[AtomicKitten]

13. K&R

:thumbsup:

[rzemanfl]

14. I am all for packing the Supreme Court in 2009. n/t

[BlueIris]

22. Oh, yeah.

I've been thinking this since '04. First order of business for the next president is fix that shit. It's irrepairably broken and needs to be completely overhauled.

[rzemanfl]

25. In 2009 all the amendments to the United States Code enacted

after January 20, 2001 should be repealed. Just one single act of Congress repealing everything done under BushCo. Then pack the Supreme Court and put all the federal judges appointed by Bush in charge of scheduling cases for the real judges.

[Hippo_Tron]

28. Umm, I kinda like McCain/Feingold...

The national do-not-call registry is kinda nice too.

But yea we can get rid of the rest of it...

[William769]

17. K & R for Mrs. Clinton!

[AZBlue]

19. You go, Hillary.

K&R

[Pushed To The Left]

20. That's our most "conservative" Democratic candidate, and even she opposed Alito and Roberts

and would most likely never think of appointing right wing justices to the Supreme Court. Then you have Rudy Guiliani, the most "liberal" Republican, saying that he intends on stacking the Court with Alito-Roberts-type justices. The real pro-choice people will be voting for the Democratic nominee in 2008. That's the bottom line.

[Alexander]

21. This is why I'd still vote for her if she won the nomination...

Things like this are far too important for anyone to sit this one out.

[ProudDad]

27. Here's a list of the dirty bastards

who voted with the pukes to cut off the fillibuster:

Akaka (HI), Baucus (MT), Bingaman (NM), Byrd (WV), Cantwell (WA), Carper (DE), Conrad (ND), Dorgan (ND), Inouye (HI), Johnson (SD), Kohl (WI), Landrieu (LA), Lieberman (CT), Lincoln (AR), Nelson (FL), Nelson (NE), Pryor (AR), Rockefeller (WV), Salazar (CO)

May they all rot in hell...