Bush’s Supreme Court appointees, John Roberts and Sam Alito, lied to the Senate when they promised to respect settled precedents on abortion, according to Bob Fertik at Democrats.Com.
“Instead they upheld a ban on fictional ‘partial birth’ abortions (a rightwing phrase with no basis in medicine) that makes no exception for a woman’s health – thus pointing a dagger at the heart of Roe v. Wade,” he says. “If women cannot count on the Supreme Court, then we must urge Congress to pass the Freedom of Choice Act to guarantee reproductive freedom for women.”
A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court, reconfigured by President Bush, decided that politicians – not women and their doctors – know what’s best for women.
The Court’s ruling to uphold the Bush Federal Abortion Ban is a setback for all Americans who support Roe v. Wade!
If you agree that women and their doctors should be trusted to make personal, private, medical decisions without political interference, then please stand up and fight back. Ask your members of Congress to cosponsor the Freedom of Choice Act. It is the most powerful tool to reverse the attack on choice by President Bush’s appointees to the Supreme Court. The Act will guarantee in federal law the rights established by Roe v. Wade for every woman in our country.
When the Supreme Court upheld Bush’s ban, it gave a green light to the anti-choice movement’s plan to unleash even more attacks on safe, legal abortion, with no regard for a woman’s health.
As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg said in her dissent, the Court’s decision “cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this Court.”
The decision effectively reverses Supreme Court precedent and rolls back key protections that have been guaranteed since Roe v. Wade. And under the ruling, a doctor will face criminal penalties of up to two years in prison, even if he or she was acting to protect a woman’s health.
“Don’t let this latest attack on women’s fundamental freedom go unanswered,” says Nancy Keenan, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America. “Tell elected officials to stand up for – not attack – our values of freedom and privacy.”
Stand up to Bush: Support the Freedom of Choice Act
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