Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

Emily, Natick MA — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:24:09 GMT

Boy, this could be embarrassing if she turns out to be pro-life, couldn't it?

Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

Freedon of Choice — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:25:33 GMT

It's not "Pro-Choice", it's Pro-Abortion. Groups that support abortion choice rarely if ever support any other kind of choice, like the choice to have a gun, and the choice to schools.

Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

Anita, Birmingham, Alabama — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:28:46 GMT

Reserving opinion's until I have fact. Stop salivating all over yourselves GOP..too early to declare victory.

Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

Beverly in Chicago — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:29:39 GMT

There is nothing wrong with Sonia Sotomayor being either a Latina or a candidate. What is wrong is the GOPers trying to use racial divide to prevent her nomination. She is a Catholic so I would imagine we need to wait and she.

Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

no joe, no bo, nj — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:30:15 GMT

Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

Eric, Salinas, CA — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:31:34 GMT

I certainly am surprised that President Obama never asked Sotomayor about abortion. The bushwhacker asked that as the only question he could of his clueless nominees. We can only hope that she's true to the feminist movement.

Sounds like Sotomayor won't allow the repugnant ones to push her around. The repugnant ones like strong men but are farid of strong women like Nancy Pelosi.

Confirm Sotomayor Now!
Go Lakers!

Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

gepa — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:33:58 GMT

Sotomayor should express her opinion on abortion rights. Pres Obama made his opinion known before he was elected. The Repub presidents make no bones about how they want to take away woman's rights; But anyone with half a brain knows Repubs are not really pro-life - "they are pro-birth; after it is born the Repubs could'nt care less about the child; it could starve & die in the streets; all they care about is getting all the religious votes. Obama had to sign the health care for children, Bush vetoed it; Bush couldn't care less about babies; All he cared about was making his rich friends richer..

Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

Charles Darwin- HMS Beagle — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:36:11 GMT

You Dems can have all the abortions and gay weddings you want. In two generations all the Dems will become extinct.

Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

Bad Chihuahua — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:38:09 GMT

Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

Chris, Dorr, MI — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:45:38 GMT

Hey: Freedon of Choice (Sent Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:25 AM)

F you! We can call it anything we want. Most I know are not pro abortion, they are pro choice. This is a free country and no one, no government, has the right to dictate what is between themselves and their maker.
Doesn't anyone remember finding sliced up women in alleys because their choice wasn't permitted. Yea...lets progress back to those days.

Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

Jody, Iowa — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:49:41 GMT

My guess is that Pres Obama asked the right questions about key issues such as abortion as he described during the debates. No justice is ever a guaranteed conservative or liberal. I think she will be a justice similar to Souter, leaning left. We must have diversity of views on the Supreme Court because dissention provides perspective for all. Our democracy can only be strengthened when represented by opposing ideology otherwise, our Constitution becames narrowed along with our freedoms. To keep that balance of ideology, it is important this time to appoint a liberal leaning justice and not another conservative.

As always, Keith Olbermann did a good job reviewing Sotomayor's entire statement about a Latina woman making a better decision that a white male; the entire statement is quite contrary to what the media is hightlighting because it takes one sentence out of context from the rest. What a surprise that Justice Alito said nearly the same thing during his confirmation hearing. GOP attackers would do well to put their claim on this issue back in the box and close the lid.

As Mark McKinnon, GOP, remarked on Rachel Maddow last night, Supreme Court nominees seem to make both parties shoot at anything that moves. How right he is. It is good to see that republicans in the senate are holding their fire, sort of, by not repeating the Limbaugh and Gingrich rhetoric but they could elevate the discussion by denouncing the reverse racist comments. There's always a degree of contention in SCOTUS appointments, that's what politics is but it would be nice if both sides would make their cases during the confirmation hearings rather than slash and burn attacks meant to degrade the person. I know, keep dreaming but wouldn't it be nice.

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Ed, San Antonio — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:50:01 GMT

Pro-Choice is the issue, NOT abortion!

Let us not forget!!!! What happened to the Octo-Mom? She had a choice......WOW!

Unless, and until the law-makers (Mostly OLD MEN) can conceive and deliver a child, the issue should be, and remain that the woman has a CHOICE!

If you want to criminalize the woman who chooses the terminate the pregnancy, then the MAN should also face criminal charges, as being COMPLICIT!

Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

St. Eleutherius of Nicomedia — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:50:11 GMT

Anita, I love your posts, particularly this one from yesterday:

“Women are tools to them and personally I've never been any man's garden tool. They don't care for intelligent strong willed females, they can't handel them, too intelligent. Anita, Birmingham Alabama (Sent Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:04 PM)
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"they can't handel them, too intelligent.”

Anita, since you are an intelligent female, would that be George Frideric Handel to whom you are referring?

Please don’t fly off the handle at this question.

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Paul Coleman — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:51:40 GMT

My guess is that the President does not care all that much about abortion rights. Those that voted for him never really kicked the tires. When the love affair ends, the damage will be assessed.

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gepa — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:53:42 GMT

Charles Darwin (sent thurs. 9:36 am) thinks all Dems will become extinct? Yes, why don't you hang waiting?; we will love to see you turn blue, LOL

Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

dan Austin, tx — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:54:02 GMT

She's educated so I'm sure she is pro-choice. But for arguments sake even if she is pro-life I'm sure for her that means a respect for all life and not just pro-birth. There is a difference but I think this is highly unlikely. She is a woman and most women even if they are pro-life personally are usually pro-choice politically.
This story seems a tad thin on the basis of a news story. I'm sure all the pro-birth posters will have a field day with this article.

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Juan,Ft Lauderdale,FL — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:12:58 GMT

"You dems can have all the abortions gay weddings you want. In two generations all the dems..........." Please do not insult Darwinism by using his name in vain as he would never be a Rethuglican.

Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

St. Eleutherius of Nicomedia — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:13:19 GMT

She's educated so I'm sure she is pro-choice. dan Austin, tx (Sent Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:54 AM)

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Well Dan, what does that make your mom? God bless her.

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Nick, Houston, TX — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:20:49 GMT

"Pro-Choice is the issue, NOT abortion!

Let us not forget!!!! What happened to the Octo-Mom? She had a choice......WOW!

Unless, and until the law-makers (Mostly OLD MEN) can conceive and deliver a child, the issue should be, and remain that the woman has a CHOICE!

If you want to criminalize the woman who chooses the terminate the pregnancy, then the MAN should also face criminal charges, as being COMPLICIT! "

What? Men get no say in abortion at all, if my wife wanted to kill my child, as long it was in her womb I have no say, none at all. When are men going to get equal rights regarding abortion. A man has a choice to have sex, just like a women but after that his choices are over. If a women chooses to have the child then the man is stuck with child support for at least the next 18 years, if she decides to kill the child he has NO say what so ever. Men have no choices in reproduction past the choice to have sex how exactly is that equal rights? Why can't men choose to have or not have a child like women can?

I'll believe it is about being Pro-Choice when Naral moves to allow men to at least have a legal abortion, meaning they irrovocably sever their legal rights and responsabilities to an unborn child, without consultation or permission of the women. Until then we know that it is indeed simpl;y about promoting abortion not any kind of right to choose. NARAL and similar groups is about promoting the killing of babies, not about "rights".

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SOTOMAYOR IS ANTI-ABORTION but NOT ANTI-ROE v. WADE — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:23:00 GMT

THE "PRO-ABORTIONISTS" WILL NOT KNOW UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE ... HA!

She will do the "Nomination Hearing Dance!"

Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

Fortunate Son — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:24:17 GMT

Chris in Dorr MI:

Whatsamatter buddy? Someone don't see things YOUR way?

The next time you take a shower shove some of that cry baby soap in your dirty little mouth. And shove hard.

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Heather Lowell, Ma — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:25:27 GMT

She is educated so she must be pro-choice. She also says that her ethnicity and gender makes her decisions better then those of a white male, but of course she isn't a racist because she is a liberal.

I would like to see the fate of any white male who made this same statement!

Liberals have no problem with racism, so long as they like the group that does it!

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Matthew, Houston, TX — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:28:15 GMT

IMHO one of the problems with the abortion debate is that each side is using language that is not congruent with the other side's language. For example: Pro-Choice vs. Pro-Life - since when did life and choice have the same meaning? More congruent language would be: Pro-Choice vs. Anti-Choice or Pro-Life vs. Anti-Life.

Personally I am Pro-Life and Pro-Choice.

If anyone were to actually read Roe v. Wade (as have I), they would find that it is quite reasonable. It is the extremists on both sides that have pushed beyond what it says and have totally misrepresented what the ruling was. Here it is in a nutshell:

1. The state has no legal right to interfere with the woman's right to choose during the first trimester of the pregnancy.
2. The state has limited legal rights to interfere with the woman's right to choose during the second trimester.
3. The state has the most legal rights to interfere with the woman's right to choose during the last trimester.

That's it people. Roe v. Wade does NOT mean abortion on demand at any time during the pregnancy nor does it allow the state to regulate it from conception.

Until we are all reading from the same page and agree on the same language, this debate will never be finished.

Make abortion legal, safe and rare.

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Heather Lowell, Ma — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:30:08 GMT

Just a question. Democrats say that they are not pro abortion, they are pro choice; that the issue is the right to control your own body.

But then these same Democrats will push for a ban on transfats. If it is my own body, don't I have a right to eat transfats if I want too?

I do not see how you can use the "my own body" argument, then totally ignore it and pass a law to tell people what they can and can not eat.

Come on people! A little consistancy please! Your supposed to be intellectuals!

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Matthew, Houston, TX — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:31:02 GMT

I want to know who is impersonating Bad Chihuahua today. While I don't agree with what this person said, it was the most lucid, non-negative, non-attacking comment I have ever seen from Bad Chihuahua.

Good job, BC. Keep it up and you might even get respect from those who disagree with you.

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Tim Stocken, Highland Lakes, NJ — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:43:02 GMT

Freedom of choice, no one is in FAVOR of abortion... Are you in favor of a desperate young girl who made a mistake or was date raped or worse using the coathanger solution? Just how would you punish such a girl? Put her in prison? Cut out her reproduction organs?

Abortion is a horrible decision for everyone involved but not having that CHOICE is far worse. Thank God I am a man and never had to make such a decision myself. The lifestyle I led in my youth was certainly helped by my gender.

On a lighter note, perhaps we could persuade Judge Sotomayor's decision making by whom we choose to portray her on Saturday Night Live. Roseann Barr if we don't agree, Minnie Driver if we do...

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Tired Of Double Standard PC Democrats — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:45:09 GMT

Please do not insult Darwinism by using his name in vain as he would never be a Rethuglican. Juan,Ft Lauderdale,FL (Sent Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:12 AM)
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Juan, how do you know Darwin was a Democrat?
Did you conjure him up in a Cuban Santeria seance?

Sotomayor: Pro-choice groups worried?

Mo — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:54:33 GMT

Do any of these groups have any respect for the 'no litmus test' policy that supposedly governs these hearings? Or the fact that it is unethical to as a potential judge his or her view on matters that may come before the court?

I diagree with Judge Souter on many issues. That said, it is perfectly clear that President Bush (41) DID NOT press him on his views on abortion, or other matters; he base his nomination on his qualifications as a justice.Thus, Souter earned the title 'stealth candidate'.

That is as it should be.

no joe, no bo, nj (Sent Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:30 AM)

no joe You just showed your true colors you couldn't make your self say the word she. You do hate woman unless they cower to what you want them to do. You've listened to Limbaugh to much you need to take a few months off before your family puts you in a nut house.

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dan Austin, tx — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:56:11 GMT

Well Dan, what does that make your mom? God bless her.
St. Eleutherius of Nicomedia (Sent Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:13 AM)
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Well she's an advocate for pro-choice. She made a decision that was hers to make and no one else made the decision for her. She has a day for that it's called Mother's Day. By the way Pro-choice means CHOICE and not pro-abortion.
The problem here is that you think you just made some valid point but in turn have proven my point. thanks for asking. :) An education will help you understand everything written here.

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:-) — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:09:53 GMT

Yep, the ONE thing Sonia SOtomayor has going for her is she doesn't believe in using tax dollars for abortions.

Oh, Planned Parenthood, aren't you displeased? No, make that irate.

A little bit of light is showing at the end of the tunnel, but Sotomayor has made racial remarks about Latino women working better than white men. I don't know if she IS a racist but it probably WAS a racial statement or at least carried racial overtones.

We've all said things that could appear racial. People have different interpretations of what is racial and perhaps that's the key.

I'm not happy about her being FOR affirmative action.
It's unfair and racial in content. It DOES promote one race or gender over another.

One things is for sure, she DOES have a beautiful set of pearly white teeth. Is that racial?
Bad Chihuahua (Sent Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:38 AM)
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Well, it's about time, chihuahua. A well thought out posting with reasoning behind it. See, that wasn't so tough, was it? (see, I take you to task often, but I can also speak up when you do well, as well).

I am glad she doesn't favor tax dollars for abortion. While the liberal in me is in favor of women having the choice, the slight right of center fiscal conservative in me says "if you want that right, pay for it on your own dime". So good for her for saying it. Shows she has a mind of her own, and isn't towing a party line.

Has she made racially tinged remarks? Sure does look like it, doesn't it? The question I would ask is "Has she done so from the bench?"...if she has, call her on that. If she hasn't, then no worries. What people say off the clock is not as important as what they say on the clock.

I am not 100% behind affirmative action either (my god, can you and I actually *agree* on things? What is this world coming to?). I tend to look at affirmative action the same way I look at labor unions. It might have had a time and place when it was necessary, but aren't we past that by now?

Enjoy your day, and I hope to see *this* version of the chihuahua around more than the "quick empty snipe" chihuahua