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State Abortion Restrictions Still a Priority for Republican Lawmakers
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyRepublican state legislators around the country, holding the majority in most cases, have aggressively moved in the past few weeks to enact new abortion restrictions. If any of these measures pass into law, and many are predicted to do so, they will likely generate a new wave of litigation over the contours of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 abortion decision. It has been five years now since the Supreme Court decided a major abortion case, and none are on its docket for the rest of this term. Related Stories Abortion Foes Have High Hopes for New Congress -- ...
Pro-Life Ranks Growing, Especially After Philly Abortion Case, Cardinal Says
By David Gibson - Politics DailyA day after the annual March for Life drew thousands to frigid Washington to protest abortion, the Roman Catholic cardinal who is the American hierarchy's point man on pro-life issues said he was "hopeful" that the new Congress could move ahead on measures to restrict abortion. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston also said he believes the cultural tide is turning against public acceptance of abortion, and that the revelations of gruesome practices by a Philadelphia abortionist will add to the disapproval. "This situation in Philadelphia is certainly sobering, and ...
Abortion Foes Have High Hopes for New Congress -- and for 2012
By David Gibson - Politics DailyAs abortion opponents prepare for their annual March for Life on the Mall in Washington on Monday, pro-life activists are revitalized by the prospect of a Republican-dominated House they view as friendlier to their agenda than at any time since the Jan. 22, 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. For example, new House leader John Boehner has said he wants to be "the most pro-life speaker ever" and New Jersey Republican Chris Smith, co-chair of the Congressional Pro-life Caucus, called this "the arguably most pro-life House ever," a judgment with which many abortion opponents ...
C-SPAN Supreme Court Series: The Re-Education of a Legal Analyst
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyAs regular readers of this space know, I have spent the past few months listening to audio recordings of some of the most important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. By "some" I mean 10, though there are dozens more I'd like to get my ears on before I'm done. The C-SPAN Supreme Court series I wrote -- short introductory columns posted here many weekends to complement C-SPAN Radio's Saturday night broadcast of selected oral arguments -- has been a gift to me this holiday season. It has reconnected me with what I have always loved and respected about the law. And it has ...
C-SPAN Series: Roe v. Wade and an Abortion Right
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThis is the sixth in a series of 10 Politics Daily columns to complement C-SPAN's broadcasts this fall of audiotape recordings of some of the most famous and important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. The broadcasts will afford most Americans their first opportunity to hear the actual words spoken by the justices and the lawyers before them in arguments that shaped the law that has shaped our lives in countless ways. The latest tape in the series, focusing on the Roe v. Wade abortion case in 1973, will be heard on C-SPAN Radio at 6 p.m. ET on Saturday, Nov. 13. Subsequent ...
Is Tweeting #ihadanabortion a Political Act? Or Just More Oversharing?
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyA few days ago #ihadanabortion was trending. In other words, the hashmarked phrase broke into the top ten topics being posted about on the addictive social media and web based bulletin board Twitter. To explain this rather unusual public declaration, Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon writes that tweeting "#ihadanabortion" is a "provocative act," but the purpose of such an exercise is to make it less so. Acknowledging that, the "complexity of women's varying experiences is lost" when reduced to 140 characters, she notes the digitally delivered statement is nevertheless powerful. "Political slogans ...
Barbara Boxer vs. Carly Fiorina: A Proxy War for the Abortion Debate?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyRecent polling suggests it's a real possibility that California Sen. Barbara Boxer might lose to Carly Fiorina in November. A Boxer loss in a "safe" Democratic state like California would be a major symbolic loss for Democrats. It also would have major policy implications for the liberal agenda, including the always-with-us, hot-button issue of abortion. For this reason, while the economy remains the No. 1 issue in the campaign, the abortion debate cannot be overlooked as it pertains to this race. "Losing Barbara Boxer in the Senate would be a major blow for the pro-choice movement," says ...
Abortion, Eugenics and the Meaning of Margaret Sanger
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyThere is a disquieting reason Ruth Bader Ginsburg's defenders have been denying, however implausibly, the clear meaning of the Supreme Court justice's recent remarks about the history of abortion law, and that reason is this: Historically, eugenics has always been a significant component of the intellectual underpinnings – and political impetus – of the movement to legalize abortion. ...
Sotomayor's Personal Views on Abortion: Why, Again, Do We Care?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyHere's my abortion question, not for Sonia Sotomayor, but for the Senate Judiciary Committee: If all of you are so confident that the judges you tend to agree with decide cases strictly on the law, with all personal opinions left in hermetically sealed containers back home in the freezer, then why is every one of you is so determined to get Supreme Court nominees to talk about their private views on this topic in particular? ...
Church Criticism of Obama Invite Grows
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyCardinal Daniel DiNardo, the Archbishop of Houston, joined a growing list of bishops and lay Catholics to denounce the University of Notre Dame for inviting President Barack Obama to speak at its commencement ceremonies this spring. DiNardo becomes the first American Cardinal to criticize the university for extending the invitation to Obama, who unabashedly supports what some call the most extreme view of abortion rights of any president since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision of the Supreme Court in 1973. Four other Catholic bishops, including Bishop John D'Arcy of the Northern Indiana ...
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