Sandra Day O’Connor: The Story Behind Her Appointment and Decisive Abortion Vote

National Catholic Register ^ | Dec. 4, 2023 | Paul Kengor

[ealgeone]

Immigration amnesty the second?

[Glad2bnuts]

Where do you get your information? Jane Wyman divorced him in 1948, and he became the Father of Ronnie in 1952. You purposely make him look like a low life. Of course he slept around, he was an actor, and single. Who doesn’t sleep around?

I think you read his childrens books, and they were not exactly unbiased. They were communists from the word go, and likely made so by teachers and others who hated Republicans, and especially Reagan.

[bigbob]

I dunno, there are many to choose from

[ansel12]

“”” It’s naive to believe he ever became a pro life.””””

Reagan was never pro-abortion, I hope we don’t have to go through all the mess we did when the pro-Romney crowd was pushing that idea to protect Romney.

To: mowells2
There is no single issue making one a conservative, but there are some positions that absolutely will knock one out of the running. Abortion being one. If Reagan was an abortionist, then no conservative should ever have voted for him. But, obviously, he was pro-life and conservatives overwhelmingly supported him. Still do.
476 posted on 1/31/2008, 6:18:08 PM by Jim Robinson

[Olog-hai]

He signed a bill legalizing so-called “therapeutic abortion” (only permitted in cases where the mother’s life was in danger), and only after a provision was dropped that permitted them in the case of birth defects. And JFTR, this was one of those “bipartisan” bills in the CA legislature.

Try not to tell half the story.

[Republican Wildcat]

There were very bad rulings she joined but overall her record was on the “correct” side so was far better than any Democrat appointment would have been for the time she was appointed...and she was more conservative than even a number of Republican appointees before her (Blackmun and Stevens come to mind). And even she ruled some laws putting restrictions on abortion to be Constitutional.

She was indeed not the best...but also far, far from the worst.

[Dr. Franklin]

Where do you get your information? Jane Wyman divorced him in 1948, and he became the Father of Ronnie in 1952.

Hmmmm... "The couple wed on March 4, 1952, ... Nancy was likely already pregnant; the couple's first child, Patricia Ann Reagan (later better known by her professional name, Patti Davis), was born less than eight months later on October 21, 1952. Their son, Ronald Prescott Reagan (later better known as Ron Reagan) was born six years later on May 20, 1958."
Nancy Reagan

Well there's the link. Where did you get your wrong information?

You purposely make him look like a low life. Of course he slept around, he was an actor, and single. Who doesn’t sleep around?

Neither Richard Nixon nor Jimmy Carter were ever known to sleep around. Both got married young, and stayed married until death did they part.

I think you read his childrens books, and they were not exactly unbiased. They were communists from the word go, and likely made so by teachers and others who hated Republicans, and especially Reagan.

You think wrong. I don't know of any children's book that tells kids that Ronnie and Nancy got married because he knocked her up. He did the honorable thing, and they made it work, but my point was that he wasn't a saint. Are you denying that Reagan in 1967 signed a law making abortion legal in California, and it became only the third state in the U.S. to make abortion legal? That was quite a liberal thing to do in 1967.

[ansel12]

"""This is the same guy who slept around in Hollywood, only married Nancy after she got pregnant, and then signed a very liberal abortion law as CA governor."""

Reagan and Nancy were engaged, before any pregnancy yet you have him only marrying her because she was pregnant, a pregnancy that these rich Californian Hollywood figures did not abort.

I would like to see your evidence of Regan's sex life and we all know that the first-time governor of the out of control late 60s California signed a strict abortion law, a naive error that predated the pro-life book he later wrote.

Here is a doctor facing charges from Reagan's bill

1-1-1971 California's 1967 Therapeutic Abortion Act: Abridging a Fundamental Right to Abortion

Nancy B. Reardan

University of the Pacific; McGeorge School of Law

However, there are additional requirements.

The termination may be performed only: (1) in hospitals accredited by the Joint Committee of Accreditation of Hospitals,9 (2) when a committee of the hospital medical staff (consisting of at least two or three licensed physicians and surgeons) affirmatively determines there is a substantial risk to the mother's physical or mental health,'" and (3) the termination is approved before the 20th week of pregnancy." Mental health as defined in the Act "means mental illness to the extent that the woman is dangerous to herself or to the person or property of others or is in need of supervision or restraint."

[ansel12]

See post 28.