Posted on 09/08/2004 9:32:50 AM PDT by nickcarraway
San Jose, CA (LifeNews.com) -- The next president could appoint as many as four new Supreme Court judges -- potentially changing the face of the abortion debate for decades. However, abortion advocates aren't waiting around to decide what to do if President Bush is re-elected and his judicial appointees overturn the infamous abortion decision.
Sponsored by a Planned Parenthood abortion business in San Jose, California, local pro-abortion leaders have put together a task force to monitor the situation and figure out how to respond.
Linda Williams, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Mar Monte, has been meeting with a dozen pro-abortion colleagues.
The group, which bills itself as the "Post-Roe Service Delivery Task Force," is now adding leading abortion advocates from across the country, according to a report in the San Jose Mercury News.
In what some detractors say is a ploy to influence the outcome of the presidential election, members of the group say so-called abortion rights would be severely curtailed if Bush wins and Roe is overturned.
"Before Roe there was no organized anti-abortion rights movement. The evolution of the anti-choice ideology, in terms of case law and the opposition stance of some public officials, would make it even more difficult to get a safe abortion than it was in the old days," Williams told the San Jose newspaper.
Williams says her task force found that abortion would remain legal in only nine states, including California, if Roe v. Wade fell.
However, that number may be larger than William's colleagues believe.
Should the landmark decision be overturned, abortion law across the United States would move from uniformly allowing virtually all abortions to a hodgepodge of state laws.
While most states banned abortion prior to Roe, many repealed their anti-abortion laws after the Supreme Court's 1973 decision. In about ten others, state Supreme Courts have interpreted privacy provisions in state constitutions to guarantee a sweeping right to abortion.
Still, Williams' group is looking at ways to develop a network of abortion advocates -- the "abortion underground" -- who will provide travel or finances for women where abortion is banned to obtain abortions in states where it is legal.
"The most alarming thing we found out is that the post-Roe environment would be even worse for women than it was before the decision," Williams told the San Jose newspaper.
However, Kurt Entsminger, president of Care Net, a national network of pregnancy centers, disagrees.
Entsminger, told LifeNews.com that resources are in place at more than 2,000 pregnancy centers nationwide to provide women with practical pregnancy help -- including medical care, education, and financial resources.
"If Roe v. Wade were ever to be overturned, an incredible infrastructure is in place to extend these services on a more widespread basis," Entsminger said. "It's just a scare tactic to say that women would have no where to turn to help."
Related web sites:
Care Net - http://www.pregnancycenters.org
Maybe they could abort one another as an act of civil disobedience.
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It would then be left to the state legislatures the way it was prior to Roe v Wade.
Well, here's hoping, but they're more optimistic than I am.
I am one of these anti-choice extremists: I believe it is wrong to choose to kill aboritionists.
Please let me know if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.
Politico speak for filthy baby murdering advocates somehow suggesting they will be slaves breaking free from the chains Bush's Christian-conservative plantation. God willing, please see that W is reelected
Then eliminate the Pro-choice false notion...that says...you can murder them but I won't. You just can't have it both ways and be free of guilt.
Pro-choice begins in the bedroom not in an abortions clinic.
These hippocrits overlook their own slavery to the religion of secular humanism. They are every bit as guilty (and moreso, since death results) of imposing their beliefs on others. The question pertaining to gov't is this: Which set of beliefs fits most closely with the U.S. Constitution?
I wonder how many of the abortion advocates would be in favor of retroactive abortions?
I have one word for them: CUBA.
"The most alarming thing we found out is that the post-Roe environment would be even worse for women than it was before the decision,"The unborn women strongly disagree.
Doesn't matter how many judges are appointed. The SCOTUS will refuse to re-hear RvW.
And I'll back one banning all abortions except when the life of the mother is threatened.
they certainly make the case for retroactive abortions.
If the states had to set their own policy, we'd have something similar to 1972. Maybe people forget that the two biggest states, under Governors Reagan and Rockefeller already had very liberal abortion policies, although California's was supposed to be more restricted than New York's, but the California courts legislated from the bench and perverted the bill that Reagan signed in 1967.
RINO Rockefeller actually vetoed the repeal of NY's abortion on demand bill.
By year's end a total of 13 states have an ALI-type law. Four states allow abortion on demand. Mississippi allows abortion for rape and incest [1966] while Alabama allows abortion for the mother's physical health [1954]. However, 31 states allow abortion only to save the mother's life.
New York repeals its 1970 abortion law but Gov. Rockefeller vetoes the repeal.
These ghouls are the culture of death of innocence and of the innicent. Over forty million murdered babies and not a single twinge of conscience among this repulsive mob.
Think this sounds like hyperbole? To see if they have that kind of hatred in their hearts toward their political and ideological opponents, head on over to democraticunderground.com, observe the condescension and profanity, and judge for yourself.
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