(from a World Can’t Wait Student Organizer):
Nov 30th
Tonight, I sit on the edge of my seat. I sit when we should be standing, when we
should be pouring out into the streets and demonstrating in front of the
Supreme Court. I must confess I am
worried. I worry about what the
world-about what our futures will look like if we allow this to go on.
Today when I read the news, I read this headline
High Courts Today
Hear Abortion Notification Case
(The first abortion case in five years, with John Roberts on
the bench)
Frantically I
went about sending e-mails, calling clubs and professors, and figuring
out the fundraising dinner we’re planning at school. All that
time tossing around what could possibly happen.
People were outside praying, in front of the Supreme Court, praying for
the upholding of the 2003 statute that rules parental notification in New
Hampshire, regardless of the health and well being of the woman. We should have been there. This is intolerable.
When I got my
abortion, I went to a different state, because the state in which I was living
requires parental notification/consent.
What if I couldn’t get transportation?
What if I didn’t know my options?
What if I was afraid to go meet with the judge to get an injunction?
What if all the states nearby required notification? What if I couldn’t wait- (which I couldn’t)?
Imagine it, you
are all alone, experiencing something truly rattling. Imagine it, you are young and up against
something so much bigger than you (you are up against Christian fascists)-
where one minute you were thinking about homework or an upcoming concert and
the next you are worrying about what you are going to do about being pregnant.
Where you realize you can’t get an abortion without apology in your state.
Where your body is criminalized and you are basically forced to give birth (if
you make it through pregnancy) to a baby you don’t want and that’s just the
beginning…Imagine it, being that desperate and performing an abortion on
yourself or getting someone else who is not trained and then going septic a day
later) .
I will not
allow this to happen (which it does in many places). I will not roll back, and
let the rights of women go with me. We
must be a force that will not close its eyes or cover its ears once and think
that it will go away. We must rise and raise our voices. The future really is in balance. The
situation cannot be ignored; it will not stop unless we stop it- so lets jump
upon those gears. We must be working for
a future, thinking forward- about a beautiful liberating future- one that
ensures abortion on demand and without apology!!!!!!!
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Special Note to the justice department and in particular
Assistant Attorney General Rachel Brand who said in response to the recently
released Alito memos (ALiTO -THE CHIPPER OF WOMENS RIGHTS)- ‘Nothing in that memo indicates how he’d
rule as a judge’
Excuse me?????? Wake
up- and stop lying!
The following are some excerpts from Maria Newman’s article
in today’s NY Times Documents Reveal
More About Court Pick’s Views
‘Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. once urged the Reagan administration to use
a circuitous approach to challenging Roe v. Wade, arguing that promoting and
defending state regulations on abortion would have a “mitigating effect” on the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that
established a constitutional right to abortion.
In documents from 1985 made public today by the National Archives, Mr.
Alito urged the solicitor general to use a case before the court to “make clear that we disagree with Roe
v. Wade and would welcome the opportunity to brief the issue of whether, and if
so to what extent, that decision should be overruled. “Mr. Alito also
urged assistance in defending provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control
Act, after some were overturned by a panel of the United States Court of
Appeals for the Third Circuit, in the case American College of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists v. Thornburgh. Mr. Alito wrote in the memo that “no one
seriously believes that the court is about to overrule Roe v. Wade,”
adding, “but the court’s decision
to review these cases nevertheless may be a positive sign.” He said
that he preferred that approach to a “frontal assault” on Roe v.
Wade.
In the 1985 case, he also said about taking up the Roe v. Wade case:
“By taking these cases, the court may be signaling an inclination to cut
back. What can be made of this opportunity to advance the goals of bringing
about the eventual overruling of Roe v. Wade and, in the meantime, of
mitigating its effects? ‘He seemed to
suggest that by bringing cases that would whittle down the effects of Roe v.
Wade, opponents of the abortion rights law had a better chance of ultimate
victory.
“‘I find this approach preferable to a frontal assault on Roe v.
Wade,” Judge Alito wrote then. “It has most of the advantages of a
brief devoted to overruling of Roe v. Wade; it makes our position clear, does
not even tacitly concede Roe’s legitimacy, and signals that we regard the
question as live and open. At the same time, it is free of many of the disadvantages that would accompany a major
effort to overturn Roe.”
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Alito thinks
he has a sly plan to chip away at the rights of women. He thinks if we slowly lose our rights we
will not resist and say no- women are not incubators. We must
be there in huge numbers on Jan 9th when the Ailto hearings begin
and say NO, NO this Christian fascist has gotta go!!
The world
can’t wait-drive out the bush regime!!!