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'These steps are covered with blood' Her 1973 supreme court case, Roe v Wade, gave every US woman the right to have an abortion. Yet now, Norma McCorvey is prepared to go to prison to help reverse that law. The figurehead of America's anti-abortion movement tells Ed Pilkington what caused this extraordinary change of heart 7 July 2009 The woman standing on the steps of the supreme court in Washington DC is nervous. A harsh sun is beating down on the white marble, threatening to bleach her out of the picture. She looks very small beneath the classical columns of...

<p>WASHINGTON - At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute at least $1 million each to fund a network of think tanks and advocacy groups, to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up during the last three decades.</p>

Christians of The United States of America. Our future is in your hands! It depends on you what will happen to 40-50,000,000 of our future children! Will they die the horrible death of abortion? Or, God willing and you willing, will they be permitted to have the right to life and live a normal life like you and I do!? Here are 10 things that would happen if we elect a pro-abortion/pro-choice president: 1. Roe v. Wade wouild exist for at least another 30 to 40 years by the Supreme Court appointments Obama would make. 2. The "Freedom of Choice...

“Norma McCorvey’s testimony is a incredible example of God’s redeeming grace. I commend Norma for her courage to speak out on the evils of abortion and pray that her redemptive story will touch hearts and change minds.” Alan E. Sears President, CEO and General Counsel Alliance Defense Fund

I plan on calling my two senators and these other demoncratic senators in my opposition to this bill. Senator Barbara Boxer who is a demoncrat from California has introduced the following bill into the legislative process. S. 1173: A bill to protect, consistent with Roe v. Wade, a woman's freedom to choose to bear a child or terminate a pregnancy, and for other purposes. You can see who co-sponsored it and what the bill says here: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1173 Here are the co-sponsors: Sen. Max Baucus [D-MT Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D-NM Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA] Sen. Benjamin Cardin...

Many pro-life advocates believe that the only way to truly outlaw abortion in America is to avoid lengthy legislative battles and address the real issue -- recognizing that every human life begins at the moment of conception. That is precisely the aim of an initiative that proposes an amendment to the Mississippi constitution. David Rogers heads the group "The Campaign for the Ultimate Human Life Amendment." The goal of the campaign is simple: change the Mississippi state constitution to recognize that every human life begins at conception -- and hopefully, ultimately overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court...

Abortion 101 at Yale By Michelle Malkin   ·   January 25, 2007 06:25 AM Dawn Eden reports that Yale medical students are celebrating "Roe v. Wade week" by holding a seminar, open to non-medical students, on how to perform abortions. --- Yale 'Roe vs. Wade Week' teaches non-medical students how to make a baby go (Whiffen)poof Good morning! I'm exhausted after taking two trains and a cab back from New Haven, so I'll leave it to Stephen of  For God, for Country, and for Yale to offer details (and, I hope, photos) of my Theology on Tap talk. I can tell...

It was 34 years ago today that Roe vs. Wade almost became the first Supreme Court ruling to be preceded with a full news release to introduce a newly invented right to the public. Justice Blackmun‘s press release, had it been released, would have emphasized that the court was not giving women "an absolute right to abortion," nor was it saying that the "Constitution compels abortion on demand." There is every bit of evidence that the court knew it was treading on shaky ground, and that they could not even decide which justification to use to strike down a Texas...

New Day in Washington for Pro-Life Marchers By Susan Jones and Payton Hoegh CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Correspondent January 19, 2007 (CNSNews.com) - For more than three decades, pro-life activists have been coming to Washington every January to mark, with sadness, the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion. The challenges are bigger than ever this year, they say, with pro-choice Democrats in control of Congress. Pro-life activists plan to address that reality at a Monday-morning news conference on Capitol Hill. The news conference will be followed by a pro-life worship service and the annual March for Life. "It's...

Hundreds of volunteers joined police officers Thursday in an hours-long search around the Purdue University campus for a freshman missing since the weekend. Wade S. Steffey, 19, of Bloomington was last seen early Saturday leaving a party at the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity house on the north side of campus, police said. Searchers spent Thursday checking campus buildings, along with places such as the campus golf courses, Purdue's horticulture park and some near-campus neighborhoods and wooded areas. The search concluded at nightfall without Steffey being found, Purdue spokeswoman Jeanne Norberg said. "It's really humbling and very heartwarming to see all...

EDINBURG — On a recent flight Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who successfully argued Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court, proudly wore a pin made popular during the height of the abortion rights movement in 1973. The pin, an image of a coat hanger with a line through it, was just too jarring for one flight attendant, Weddington said. “What do you have against coat hangers,” the flight attendant asked her. The crowd of mostly University of Texas-Pan American students erupted in laughter when Weddington told that story Tuesday as the final speaker in the UTPA Distinguished Speaker series. Previous...

by Ken Concannon Other Articles by Ken Concannon Roe v. Wade: A Not-So-Super Precedent 04/20/06 On the second day of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings in September 2005, pro-choice Republican committee chairman Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania introduced the subject of stare decisis, a Latin term meaning "to stand by that which is decided.” In This Article...A Grim AttachmentIf the Print Is Small Enough They Won’t NoticePlease Don’t Confuse Us With the Facts A Grim Attachment It’s a maxim that abortion supporters, like Specter, cling to dearly because most constitutional scholars are well aware that the Roe decision...

<p>South Dakota's new law banning almost all abortions is creating a rift among anti-abortion Republicans during an election year.</p> <p>The law bars abortions unless they're needed to save a woman's life. The ban has underscored disagreements between the law's supporters and those who favor exceptions for rape and incest. It has also exposed Republican disagreements over how best to reduce abortions when most Americans support keeping them legal.</p>

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, author of the controversial Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion in 1973, died Thursday at a Virginia hospital (...) President Clinton said Thursday he "saw up close Harry Blackmun's intense passion -- his passion for the welfare of the American people, for defending our liberties and our institutions, for moving us forward together." "In 24 years on the Supreme Court he served with compassion, distinction, and honor," Clinton said. "Every decision and every dissent was firmly grounded in the Constitution he revered and his uncanny feel for the human element that lies...

JACKSON, Miss. - Republican Gov. Haley Barbour said Wednesday that he likely would sign a bill to ban most abortions in Mississippi if it's approved by lawmakers. The state already has some of the strictest abortion laws in the nation. The bill that passed the House Public Health Committee on Tuesday would allow abortion only to save the pregnant woman's life. It would make no exception in cases of rape or incest. South Dakota lawmakers passed a similar bill last week that was intended to provoke a court showdown over the legality of abortion. Responding to questions about whether he'd...

(CNSNews.com) - The South Dakota House has approved a bill banning almost all abortions in the state, and the state Senate is next to take up the proposed ban. The measure, HB1215, cleared the state House by a vote of 47 to 22 Thursday after over an hour of debate. The bill's sponsor, Rep. Roger Hunt (R-Brandon), believes the time is right to mount a challenge to Roe v. Wade, and supporters are hoping such a challenge would capture the attention of the U.S. Supreme Court, which could end up in a reversal of the 1973 decision legalizing abortion. Opponents...

Should the South Dakota Legislature outlaw abortion? Of course it should. Please Freep This Poll It's down a bit on the left side of the page. The DUmmies are onto it, so vote YES, and vote often.

Rep. Alan Mollohan (W.Va.), the top Democrat on the House ethics committee, has received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and gifts to a family foundation from MZM Inc. and another firm that did business with MZM. The former owner of MZM, Mitchell Wade, is at the heart of the recent scandal that toppled ex-Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-Calif.). The Californian pleaded guilty last week to accepting $2.4 million in bribes, fraud and tax evasion charges. The donations to Mollohan were perfectly legal. But the fact that the top ethics cop for House Democrats received significant sums from the...

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State Battles Likely if Roe Overturned By DAVID CRARY, Associated Press Writer Sat Nov 5,11:56 PM ET NEW YORK - Undoubtedly, there would be tumult — likely roiling every statehouse in the nation. Beyond that, little is certain about what would unfold if the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the divisive 1973 decision establishing a woman's right to have an abortion. Reversal remains only a hypothesis for now, yet both sides in the abortion debate are discussing the demise of Roe as an increasingly serious possibility. President Bush's nomination of conservative Samuel Alito to replace moderate Justice Sandra Day...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Democratic candidate for governor Jim Gibson said Friday that he'd support a state law banning abortion in most circumstances if Roe v. Wade were overturned. In an interview on the news program "Face to Face with Jon Ralston," Gibson, an anti-abortion Mormon, said he believed abortion should be legal only in cases of rape, incest or when a mother's life is in danger. If the federal law guaranteeing a woman's right to an abortion were to be reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court and the issue turned over to the states, Gibson said he would have...

Word out of the White House this morning is that in prep sessions for her hearings, Miers has been working on outlining her arguments that Roe. v. Wade is "settled law." This takes on greater significance given John Fund's report on the Arlington Group's conference call to discuss the Miers nomination. White House staff involved in the Miers nomination process knew this story was coming over the weekend, and have been attempting to construct some push back on it. "There really isn't any," says one outside consultant in the matter. "It's not like Roberts who had his own testimony to...

Schumer Is Right Judge Roberts should tell us what he thinks of Roe and other precedents. "Most opinion leaders and scholars think that asking a nominee to answer questions about a specific, already decided Supreme Court case is an appropriate line of questioning," Senator Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) told a gathering at the National Press Club on Wednesday. I can’t vouch for Sen. Schumer’s contention that “most” opinion is with him, but, for what it’s worth, I think he’s right. And that Ramesh Ponnuru, similarly, is right. Judge John G. Roberts Jr., or any nominee to the Supreme Court, should...

It's happened. Just this morning. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has announced her retirement. Throughout her tenure, Justice O'Connor has been part of the razor-thin majority that has kept Roe v. Wade from being dismantled. Now, for the first time in over a decade, there's a vacancy on the Supreme Court. And unless we act quickly, it will be filled by a right-wing extremist bent on ending a woman's right to choose. We knew a retirement was coming, but if you're like me, today's announcement still came as a shock. Yes, this is a long weekend, but the next few weeks...

Last autumn, in the midst of a presidential election, America's Democrats were fighting furiously to protect what they described as a constitutional right - to have an abortion. But in an extraordinary turn of events, some argue that it is the single issue standing in the way of their election prospects. They are daring to say what once was regarded as heresy - that it is time to let the argument go. Abortion may still be the most divisive issue in the US, but in a move indicative of creeping conservatism, Democrats now seem happy to amend - even relinquish...

Tipping Point: Supreme Court Sows the Seeds to its Long-Awaited Demise By N. Beaujon June 29, 2005 The obituary of the tyranny of the judicial branch of government can finally be written. In two days of wrong-headed decisions, Dred Scott-like in their proportion, the Court has finally put the nail in their own lawless coffin. Even the most uneducated American knows the Supreme Court has officially run amok. When Government is told they can act as an arm of private developers to trump your inalienable right to own and make use of your cherished private property you can safely assume...

Beyond Roe: Building a Civilization of Love Deacon Keith Fournier © Third Millennium, LLC Introduction This past weekend I had the honor of serving as a Deacon at St. Benedicts’ Catholic Church in the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia. This parish is becoming a center for authentic Catholic renewal. Under the faithful leadership of Father James Kauffman, it is undergoing a time of true growth on every front; in the beauty of the liturgy, the faith of the members and the influence of their example. The parish feeds my growing hope that what many commentators on Catholic faith and life are...

Educating the Children of Illegal Immigrants By William John Hagan Houston Home Journal (Warner Robins, Perry, GA) May 18, 2005 When the United States finally became a union in 1789, one of the primary concerns of our founding fathers was the preservation of the sovereignty and protection of State Rights. Unlike Britain and Canada, the United States of America embraced a republican form of government rather than an all powerful parliamentary system. The formation of the United States Senate was not a throwback to the Roman Senate, but a unique historical creation which protected States with small populations from domination...

TEMPE, Ariz. — Nearly one year after the outpouring over Army Ranger Pat Tillman's death in Afghanistan galvanized the Arizona State athletic community, it is reeling after the death of another former Sun Devil football player. Tailback Loren Wade, a junior from Los Angeles, is in Madison Street Jail, where for the last four days he has been held without bail in connection with the shooting death of former player Brandon Falkner early Saturday outside a nightclub in Scottsdale, Ariz. Wade reportedly made threats against his girlfriend, former Arizona State soccer player Haley von Blommestein, and gymnast Trisha Dixon. Police...

Look at this ridiculous movie. I had a good laugh when I was watching it.

Top of the fold -- Judicial Supremacists and the Despotic Branch... The U.S. Constitution suffered some serious setbacks this week. The future of liberty and the rule of law suffered likewise. It's bad enough that Democrat obstructionists are once again denying President George Bush's federal-bench nominees their constitutionally prescribed up-or-down vote by the full Senate. In a fine example of why we need those nominees on the bench, Leftists on the Supreme Court are, again, "interpreting" the so-called "living Constitution" as a method of altering that venerable document by judicial diktat. Worse yet, these Left-judiciary Supremacists -- Justice Anthony Kennedy...

The main Darwinian process going on in America is the liberals exterminating themselves. Each conservative family averages two and a half kids while the liberals are barely over one kid per two average liberal adults. Thank you Roe and thank you Wade. Bush is indeed the president select of the Supreme Court.... the liberal court of three decades ago. As liberals slaughter their young the conservative majority grows. With the added boost from the new media, the pace is accelerating as the elitist evil empire is permanently frozen into minority status - at least in our lifetime. Could this be...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a challenge to its landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion by the woman once known as "Jane Roe," who was at the center of the historic U.S. case. Without comment, justices declined to hear the appeal from Norma McCorvey and thus dodged a highly charged political debate for now. McCorvey's protest of Texas' abortion ban led to the Roe v. Wade ruling establishing a constitutional right to abortion. McCorvey, who says she now regrets her role in the decision, argued in court filings that the case should be heard again in light...

Abortion “rights” proponents are finding that their position is becoming even more indefensible because of the increased viability of small-sized infants. Proponents of abortion have always maintained that abortion — that is, killing babies — is not murder, but a “termination of fetal tissue.” And the legal system has upheld that viewpoint ever since the Roe v. Wade decision, even to the point of accepting third-trimester abortions and partial-birth abortions. However, recent events have called negative attention to the “logic” of the pro-abortion stance. On September 19, 2004, twins were born to Mahajabeen Shaik — not an unusual occurrence of...

Change 'may still be some way away,' he tells marchers WASHINGTON - President Bush told abortion foes on Monday he shared their support for “a culture of life” and claimed progress in passing legislation to protect the vulnerable.“We need most of all to change hearts and that is what we’re doing,” Bush said as anti-abortion activists marked the 32nd anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion with a day of rallies, protests and other activities.The issue took on new urgency with the likelihood of a high court vacancy.Bush addressed marchers by phone from the presidential retreat at Camp David,...

Thursday, January 20, 2005 How lying marketers sold Roe v. Wade to America Posted: January 20, 20051:00 a.m. Eastern By David Kupelian © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com "Women must have control over their own bodies." "Safe and legal abortion is every woman's right." "Who decides? You decide!" "Abortion is a personal decision between a woman and her doctor." "Who will make this most personal decision of a woman's life? Will women decide, or will the politicians and bureaucrats in Washington?" "Freedom of choice – a basic American right." In one of the most successful marketing campaigns in modern political history, the "abortion rights...

Harry Reid, the new Senate Democratic leader, is moderate to pro-life on abortion... But when he appeared on "Meet the Press" Sunday and Tim Russert gave him a chance to take a clear position against Roe, Mr. Reid demurred, saying that "it would be pretty difficult for everybody" if the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 ruling. Actually, it would be far more difficult for the Republicans, for the continued existence of Roe allows the GOP to have it both ways on abortion... By mostly removing the issue from the democratic process, Roe created the current polarization over abortion, in which...

One October morning in Las Vegas, a teenage girl, five months pregnant, checked into Humana Sunrise Hospital to under-go a prostaglandin abortion. Prostaglandin abortion is a simple — but dangerous — procedure in which the pregnant mother is given a pill which causes her to go into labor and expel her baby. On this morning the girl's labor was slow to commence and the abortionist ordered that she be given a second pill. Editor Sherman R. Fredrick of the Las Vegas Review Journal described what happened next: "Later nurses heard a shriek, entered the room and found the girl screaming....

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The woman whose fictitious name helped usher in an era of legal abortion changed her mind ten years ago and says she regrets the small part she played in helping make abortion legal. Now, she's made up her mind about a presidential candidate -- because she hopes the key court case will someday be overturned. Norma McCorvey, the former plaintiff in the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision, has endorsed President Bush in his re-election bid. "This year I am going to vote to re-elect President Bush, because he is committed to the cause of life...

Come and show unity for the first and most fundamental of human rights. What: Life Chain (national) When: 2-3 p.m. Sunday, October 3 Where: Fred Meyer, Burlington, WA 920 S. Burlington Blvd. Burlington, WA 98233 Map Or, check with your own local pro-life organizations and churches. Bring a sign. Proverbs 24:11 [KJV] If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; 24:12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it?...

Doctors fear pregnant teenagers could be forced into backstreet abortions if a proposed law change is passed. Two of New Zealand's leading medical organisations – Royal College of General Practitioners and the New Zealand Medical Association – have written a joint letter to all MPs urging them to reject a proposal making it mandatory for parents to be told if their daughter is seeking an abortion. "By breaching patient confidentiality there is a serious risk of returning to the era of dangerous, illegal abortions," College of GPs president Jim Vause said. "We are strongly opposed for medical, ethical and clinical...

Last week, I saw my granddaughter’s face for the first time. Like every other grandmother, I am of the opinion that all my grandchildren are beautiful, so it is only natural that I think my new granddaughter is lovely as well. And that was the general consensus in the room -- we all kept saying how pretty she is. She has fine hair, about half an inch long. She has her mother’s nose and cheeks. She may have her father’s chin -- I can’t tell yet, but the nose is definitely my daughter’s -- slightly rounded on the end. Her...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Likely Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has started running television ads blasting President Bush for his pro-life position -- specifically his nomination of pro-life judges to various federal courts. The ads are timed to coincide with the national pro-abortion march on Saturday. "The Supreme Court is just one vote away from outlawing a woman's right to choose. George Bush will appoint anti-choice, anti-privacy justices. But you can stop him. Help elect John Kerry and join the fight to protect our right to choose," the ad says. "I promise to take the fight to George Bush every...

Someone MUST get a of Sean Hannity's conversation with Kerry spokesman David Wade. It is some of the funniest radio I've ever heard. Wade found it absolutely impossible to answer a question. Sean tried over and over and over and over and over again. Hannity asked Wade to condemn Lifeguard Kennedy's statement that President Bush concocted the war for political gain. Wade sounded like an absolute fool and sock puppet. This is the same David Wade who denied to Tom Lipscomb that Kerry was at the Nov. 1971 Kansas City meeting of the VVAW hierarchy in which they voted whether...

Pierre, SD (LifeNews.com) -- The South Dakota state Senate has declined to approve technical corrections made to an abortion ban bill by Governor Mike Rounds (R). The vote came shortly after the state House approved the ban that some pro-life groups say won't prohibit many abortions. After passing through the state legislature, Rounds issued a "style and form" veto. Unlike most other states, South Dakota's constitution allows governors to require the legislature to approve changes to the bill on a majority vote. Rounds sought to ensure that current pro-life laws will remain on the books if the legislation is declared...

The anti-war group that John Kerry was the principal spokesman for debated and voted on a plot to assassinate politicians who supported the Vietnam War. Mr. Kerry denies being present at the November 12-15, 1971, meeting in Kansas City of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and says he quit the group before the meeting. But according to the current head of Missouri Veterans for Kerry, Randy Barnes, Mr. Kerry,who was then 27,was at the meeting, voted against the plot, and then orally resigned from the organization. Mr. Barnes was present as part of the Kansas City host chapter for the...

New Orleans, LA (LifeNews.com) -- The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has announced that it will hear oral arguments in Norma McCorvey's attempt to overturn the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that overturned pro-life laws across the country banning abortion. McCorvey's case is on appeal after a federal judge dismissed it only days after the case was filed. Attorneys for McCorvey, the former Roe, filed a motion appealing the judge's determination that case could not be reopened because too much time had elapsed since the original decision. "We are excited about this historic opportunity to reverse Roe v....

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Democrats seeking support from primary voters in their race for the White House celebrated the Supreme Court's ruling 31 years ago permitting women the legal right to have an abortion. Their messages were strong and clear that they support the practice of abortion and will defend it. Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) came in second during the Iowa Caucuses last week and announced that he is willing to stand up against Republican attacks against Roe v. Wade. "On the same day that we are honoring the 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we are also fighting to...

The ability of a nation to peaceably govern itself is entirely dependent on its willingness to abide by previously stipulated agreements wherein limits of governmental action are established. Most importantly, such rules must define the method by which authority transitions from one leader to another. The alternative to this approach can only be violent revolution. For more than two centuries, the United States has, with the notable exception of the Civil War, operated in an orderly manner in which the rights of citizens have been generally regarded as paramount. However, in the past decade or so, an emerging pattern of...