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Pro-Choice vs. Pro-Life: Can They Be One and the Same?
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyThirty-seven years after the Supreme Court ruling legalized abortion, we are still struggling to find the right language to identify the opposing sides in a debate that will likely never end. Those who support abortion rights (or is reproductive rights?) call themselves pro-choice. Yet those who would like to see Roe v. Wade overturned recoil from the label anti-choice, and rightly so, and call themselves pro-life. A lot of the media have adopted the pro-life label as a matter of convenience, which infuriates the other side since those who support reproductive choice (yet another way to say ...
Sarah Palin, NOW Spar Over Tim Tebow's Super Bowl Ad
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe National Organization for Women is firing back at Sarah Palin, who took issue with the group's opposition to a pro-life Super Bowl ad that will feature college football player Tim Tebow, Politico reports. NOW said that Palin, who defended the Focus on the Family-sponsored ad and urged CBS not to "cave" to pressures to pull it, was "missing our point." The 30-second spot will feature Tebow and his mother, Pam, telling the story of her decision not to end her difficult pregnancy with the future Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback in 1987. Tebow has said his mother's courage often persuades ...
Abortion Foes Claim New Momentum
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 22) – Thousands of abortion opponents trudged up Capitol Hill to the Supreme Court once again Friday in the annual ritual known as the March for Life. But on this, the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, there were signs they were marching with a renewed sense of direction. "This is an exciting time to be in the pro-life movement," said Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, which organized a "Virtual March for Life" of more than 75,000 avatars to join the actual throng on the National Mall. "A year ago, we were facing unprecedented opposition, seeing ...
Where the Gay Marriage Debate Should End
By Willy Hameline - Politics DailyIt is a wonderful feeling to have a say in something you really believe in. Earlier this month, atop the ballot in Maine, Question 1 gave voters like myself the chance to determine the fate of a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state. Question 1 was a veto – a "Yes" vote would quash marriage equality, a "No" vote would uphold it. Maine's ballots are charmingly low-tech. Two broken arrows – one for yes, the other for no – point at the issues, and it's up to the voter to color in the one he favors. When all was said and done, a majority – 52.7 percent ...
Ginsburg, Roe and Population Control
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyLike Ria, I was happy to hear Ruth Bader Ginsburg announce herself a product of affirmative action. In her interview with The New York Times Magazine, Justice Ginsburg says that Columbia University's 1972 decision to offer her tenure as a law professor was motivated by politics. It would be another decade before my alma mater would admit its first female student in the fall of 1983. But it was Justice Ginsburg's comment on another bullet point on the feminist movement's CV that had me reading, then re-reading and then re-reading again. In 1973, one year after her tenure at Columbia began, the ...
Roe v. Wade More Than a Scare Tactic
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe LA Times reports that, although warnings about protecting Roe v Wade (the Supreme Court decision that gives women the right to choose whether to end a pregnancy or not) are viewed by many as the clucking of Chicken Littles (Chickens Little?), the danger is very real this time around.This time, Roe vs. Wade really could hang in the balance If Justices John Paul Stevens, pictured, or Ruth Bader Ginsburg were to be replaced by a staunch conservative, that could tip the majority against abortion rights. The Supreme Court's onetime wide majority in favor of abortion rights has shrunk to one: ...
McCain's 'Maverick' Position on Choice
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyBrave New Films has released a short film that really goes to the heart of the problem with John McCain: People don't actually know his positions on a lot of issues. If they did, it might not make a difference, but then again, it might. I'm a firm believer that people deserve to know what they're getting.In this case, the issue is abortion rights, and according to the film, 73% of women in battleground states don't know his true position. I have witnessed this phenomenon personally. I've written about this over and over again. John McCain is anti-choice. Period. In fact, he is the first GOP ...
Bring Me the Head of Chris Matthews
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThere's a new group called The New Agenda, and they're coming for you, Chris Matthews. The LA Times reports that the group considers Matthews a good start:The nonpartisan group, called the New Agenda, held its first meeting this week and established as one of several goals getting Matthews yanked from his long-running show, "Hardball with Chris Matthews." Amy Siskind of Westchester, N.Y., a founder and Clinton supporter, said the group was urging that Matthews' contract not be renewed because "the kind of language he uses and the kind of behavior he exhibits in the public domain toward women ...
HillaCrats for McCain: Ready to Sacrifice Roe?
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAs my family will attest, I spend way too much time reading the comments on these pages, and I realize that this can distort one's view of the average voter. Naturally, most of the comments come from a small number of readers, many of them forceful advocates for one candidate. Still, there are, anecdotally, a lot of people who claim to be Hillary Clinton supporters who say that if Barack Obama is the nominee, they will vote for John McCain. Now, one of three things is true: 1. They're telling the truth 2. They're bluffing to scare people off the fence onto Hillary's side 3. They are Republican ...
35 Years After Roe v. Wade
By Justin Paulette - Politics Daily"Supreme Court Settles Abortion Issue." - The New York Times, January 23, 1973 It didn't quite turn out as the Times predicted. Today marks the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that "settled" the abortion debate by sweeping aside the laws of all 50 states and imposing a federal abortion mandate to protect women's rights on the nation. In contrast with the Times' hopeful headline, hundreds of thousands will arrive in Washington, D.C. today for the annual "March for Life," and every presidential candidate will undoubtedly speak to the occassion. Democrats will laud ...
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