Pro-life shout outs at Sotomayor hearing: good or bad?
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Entries Tagged ‘Sonia Sotomayor’
AUL’s Charmaine Yoest sole pro-lifer to testify at Sotomayor hearing
UPDATE, 5:18p: AUL’s legal team has assembled a “Top 10 questions to ask Judge Sotomayor” and is giving us list of witnesses to testify at the confirmation hearings beginning Monday of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. I’m excited and proud that The Washington Independent, “The presence of only one pro-life activist on the list is […]
Pro-abort skepticism of Sotomayor a con game?
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Jivin J’s Life Links 5-28-09, Part II
by LA Times has an article regarding the concerns of abortion rights groups in regards to Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor: “I simply don’t know Judge Sotomayor’s view on Roe vs. Wade. I will be very concerned if the question is not asked and answered during the Senate hearings,” Nancy Northup, president of the […]
The fight over Sotomayor: both sides of abortion issue engaged
If I were watching only t.v. news, including Fox, I’d think the fight over Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, was over before it started. All I hear are warnings for Republicans to back away for fear of losing the Latino vote. (Where were warnings for Dems to back away when they […]
Plot thickens re: Sotomayor’s abortion stance
UPDATE, 10:40a: And at least 1 Center for Reproductive Rights, which Sotomayor ruled against in her 2002 Mexico City policy decision, has also issued a “wait and see” statement on Sotomayor, agreeing with NARAL she needs to say plainly whether or not she supports Roe v. Wade (click to enlarge)…
Breaking news: Obama picks Sotomayor for Supreme Court
UPDATE, 5/27, 10a: From the itemizes Sotomayor’s track record on abortion. Quoting LifeNews.com, “Sotomayor… has not directly issued any rulings on abortion but she has been involved in abortion cases.” One of those was Sotomayor’s opinion in 2002 against pro-aborts challenging President George W. Bush’s signing of the Mexico City policy, although her ruling coincided […]
Conservatives gear up for Supreme Court fight
Republicans had difficulty getting sea legs when Supreme Court justice David Souter Huffington Post May 18: The rationale is gradually being put in place for Republicans to mount a filibuster of Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. On Sunday, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions, suggested that the country had moved to […]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.