I’m moving to Amsterdam, where I can be free and brave…

Personally, I am trying to immigrate to Canada, since I can’t speak Spanish, where gays and lesbians can even get married now.  What is it with this country?  Basically, the people of the US are trying to move forward in social progression while our government is moving backwards by implementing Draconian laws.  While other countries are progressing, we are going backwards into the Dark Ages when it comes to human rights including women’s.  So much for the “Freedom” and “Democracy” that Bush and the Congress likes to shout about all the time and to force upon other nations.

I no longer have any confidence in the Democrats of the Senate taking a stand or using the filibuster to stop the extreme right wing (Fascists by any other name) from rolling over women’s human rights.  The Supreme Court is the last stand against this insidious destruction of equality, liberty and justice for all.  As a woman activist involved in the (equal rights for all) movement for a long time, I will no longer want to live in this society that denies my basic human right to own my own body and will encourage my college-degree daughter to leave with me when Roe vs Wade is finally shot down. 

Think that I am overreacting?  Then please listen to what several of these judges, that Bush keeps pushing on Congress, have said about making abortion a capital crime offense punishable by death and outlawing contraceptives under the pretense that they are forms of abortion.  If Bush succeeds in getting the Supreme Court vacancy(ies) filled with his favorite judges, then the females of the US can kiss their human rights goodbye just like in some other countries.  Ready for the resurgence of a Underground Railroad in order to get contraceptives and abortions, women?  See you in the “railroad station” ...

They won’t make abortion illegal.  Pro-choice groups represent the strongest organization the left has and one new Supreme Court judge isn’t enough to beat them.

I agree with Deborah although I’m not moving out of my country which I want to take back.  If we don’t fight these draconian measures, soon only white, Christian men will be able to vote at all and we will be just another theocratic dictarorship.

I too am thinking of moving. I am looking into a law that might allow me dual citizenship with a country my family came from, on one side, two generations ago.

Why? Not just because of the neo-con big picture, but because of what neo-con policies have done to my quality of life and experience of daily like here in america.

There is a brutal quality to my daily life now. I think the police are nastier, the costs are higher and I am scared for the first time about voicing my opinions. I am scared of my government for the first time in my life—and i am an activist. I never shut up about anything.

To answer your question though, yes, I think Roberts could tip the balance. He also could be another stealth justice who grabbed the opportunity to work for the justice dept during a conservative administration but won’t rule anything like republicans think he might. He has his ciruit court record though too.

I hope he is not confirmed.

I like to remind people how long Blackman labored over the abortion decision. He took about a year (Or more?) to write it. It was a huge challenge to write that opinion.

The final opinion was beyond my brightest hopes. He got it so right. I think most prochoice women will tell you that his delineations according to the trimesters strikes them as so intuitively right, knowing their own bodies as they do, that they could not have improve on it.

The work that went into the decision and the years of suffering and strife for women before it was passed can’t be forgotten. We must remember this.

Some women feel that for politics sake, leaders on the left may be willing to forsake choice, or limit it, in order to win wider support.

I think it says alot that women shoild be sacrificed first for such a cause. See how it is? We are always second class. As if Blackman didn’t toil for a year, as if women didn’t die in back alleys, as if government may give and take our autonomy.

As long as our nation has the highest percentage of unwanted children-orphans, higher than any other Western or Eastern nation, I want the right of abortion for if not, there will just be a million or more orphans.  And what will the Supremes do to men who insist that women “like to be raped?” I don’t want to go back to the back allies of every city; I want abortion legal, clean and done responsibly by a competent doctor.  We should not be a society which forces women to have children of rape and children who are not wanted.

Speaking of rape, there are arill emergency rooms that are not offering the morning-after pill to rape victims.

I am confident that abortion will not even be an issue in the Supreme Court. I mean, if they make abortion illegal, there will be riots in the streets.

Personally, I will be protesting right there with them.

The Supreme Court won’t do anything about Roe v. Wade, because they can’t afford to.

I am not confident of the Supreme Court at all and I have lost all confidence in the Bush Administration.  The Dems don’t seem to have any viable solutions either and I’m hoping for a moderate, middle-of-the-road third party to develop.  I think the time is ripe for reasonable people to rule instead of the extreme fanatics of both parties.