Daily Kos: 33rd Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

[samhsarah]

Today is the 33rd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade. You can read the Court's opinion here. Bush has declared today "National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2006".

Kate Michelman, former President of NARAL, published a column a couple weeks ago that is worthy of a closer look today. As we reflect on Roe's anniversary about the right to privacy and the interaction between the government and the individual, Michelman brings into sharp relief the true consequences of a world without Roe, and she discusses Alito's effect on the Court in the process:

Today, many people have a stylized, "Pleasantville'' vision of the pre-Roe era in which I grew up. They imagine fondly that almost all families had a daddy at the office and a mommy in the kitchen; that almost all family relations were well-ordered and unthreatening; in short, that life for most of us looked rather like "Leave It to Beaver'' -- and that, with a few legal adjustments, it could do so again.

The conservative movement has spent the past 20 years working to roll back social progress and make this fantasy a reality. It is time to stop seeing the fate of Roe as a Beltway parlor game. What really hangs in the balance in the Supreme Court nomination of Samuel Alito are the fundamental rights to privacy, dignity and autonomy -- rights that transcend partisan politics, shape the course of our daily lives and lie at the heart of who we are as Americans.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/22/162019/125

Original Article: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/01/09/alitos_fantasy_world?mode=PF

[HockeyMom]

1. I have ONE question for these people

who are constantly citing 40M "babies" had been killed since Roe. WHAT do you propose to DO with 40M UNWANTED CHILDREN (they don't stay BABIES forever), if you end Roe?????? Do you have a PLAN? Or do you have the same pie in the sky outlook as you did for the Iraq war????