Friday, April 20, 2007

Women and choices

I admit I didnt follow the recent Supreme Court ruling on partial birth abortions as closely as I would normally have, because my mind like that of most of the United States and the world has been focussed on VT. But the article I read concerns me - in fact like the author, as a woman, I too am outraged by the decision. With even the 'less conservative' Republicans like Rudy Guiliani supporting this ban, its quite alarming to think what a Republican victory will mean for women's reproductive rights in the United States -

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18234963/site/newsweek/from/ET/

2 Comments:

At 11:34 PM, Blogger amruta said...

yeah, i read one nyt op-ed that said guys, it's only one single solitary procedure, so relax ---- but it's the beginning of a slide down a slippery slope and i don't think the writer's taking that into account!

read another one which made an interesting prognosis, viz. look out for the cases/issues where day o'conner was the swing vote. those are going to be presented to the new court now....

chk it out here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/weekinreview/22liptak.html

 
At 5:18 AM, Blogger Abhishek said...

I wonder how many lawyers will be drooling on their computers while reading this story :)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/28/business/28gender.html?hp

 

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