Ex Supreme Court Justice O'Connor Bashes Pro-Life Advocates on Terri Schiavo

[Catholic29]

Ex Supreme Court Justice O’Connor Bashes Pro-Life Advocates on Terri Schiavo

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 13, 2006

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) – Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor used a speech at Georgetown University to attack pro-life lawmakers who sided with Terri Schiavo’s parents in their efforts to prevent their daughter’s euthanasia death. She claimed a Congressional effort to have federal courts review the case was a first step towards a dictatorship.

O’Connor, who backs abortion, announced her retirement last year and was recently replaced by federal appeals court judge Samuel Alito, who pro-life advocates hope will be more open to upholding laws that protect the right to life.

“We must be ever-vigilant against those who would strong-arm the judiciary,” she said of the pro-Terri Schiavo lawmakers.

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[LRThunder]

Catholic29:

She should be the last person to talk about a dictatorship happening. Didn’t she rule on the eminent domain case, which lowered the standard on seizing private property in order to generate a tax base? If she voted against that decision, then she would be consistent. But if she voted for it…

 

[WanderAimlessly]

I think this is the same topic being discussed here:O’Connor attacks DeLayfor targeting U.S. judges
In any case, she is off the court and now is irrelevant.

PF

 

[Rand_Al_Thor]

Peace be with you!

Hmmm…I thought Georgetown was supposed to be a Catholic school. What was she doing speaking there?

In Christ,
Rand

 

[otm]

Rand Al'Thor:

Peace be with you!

Hmmm…I thought Georgetown was supposed to be a Catholic school. What was she doing speaking there?

In Christ,
Rand

Very possibly speaking to law students. Given the fact that they need to learn to hear and deal with more than one side of an issue, I am not sure that positing a form of censorship of ideas is going to provide them with the ability to deal with the world at large, and the issue of judges who have opinions (they all do, to the surprise of some).