National Right to Life on O'Conner and what we need to do!

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**Justice O’Connor announces her retirement
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Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has announced her intention to retire from the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice O’Connor was the deciding vote in a 5-4 decision to keep the gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure legal. And she was the swing vote in a 5-4 decision to curtail the free speech rights of pro-lifers to lobby on behalf of unborn children in the McCain-Feingold campaign reform case.

President Bush will now nominate a new justice, who must survive the minefield of Senate confirmation. Senators Boxer, Leahy, Schumer, Clinton, Kennedy and others will stand in the way. In some ways the coming fight to confirm a true constructionist who respects the words and real meaning of the Constitution will be every bit as bitter as the fight to confirm Robert Bork in 1987.

And we lost that fight. And because we lost that fight, abortion has remained legal through all nine months of pregnancy in the United States.

There are three critically important things you can do to help President Bush get a new Supreme Court justice confirmed:

#1 Please contribute to National Right to Life’s grassroots effort to confirm President Bush’s nominee to the Supreme Court. Pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood, NARAL and People for the American Way have already begun massive projects to use media, e-mail lists and grassroots campaigns to get the Senate to stall and defeat any judge who respects the Constitution as written. They know they need activist judges to continue to legislate from the bench if they want to keep a so-called “constitutional right” to abortion.

Please help National Right to Life advertise, lobby and activate the pro-life grassroots in our campaign by donating through NRLC’s website, www.nrlc.org; or by phoning our office to donate by credit card at 202-626-8813; or by sending a generous contribution to National Right to Life, 512 10th St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20004.

#2 Call your two U.S. Senators now and ask them to vote for a justice who will interpret the words and actual meaning of the Constitution, not legislate from the bench.

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is 202-224-2421.

#3 Please forward this important e-mail message to every pro-life friend and every person you know who cares about the integrity of the U.S. Constitution.

Again, please visit our website at www.nrlc.org to donate to our grassroots campaign, and thank you for all you can do to help us protect unborn children at this critical time.
 
**Supreme Court Battle After O’Connor Departure Focused on Abortion

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by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
July 1, 2005

**Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) – **Groups on both sides of the abortion debate are getting ready for one of the largest national battles over the issue of abortion outside of a presidential election. With the retirement of pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice San Day O’Connor, the direction of the court on the issue of abortion could be greatly affected. O’Connor strongly backed legalized abortion and was the deciding vote in a 2000 case that overturned many state laws on partial-birth abortion.

http://www.lifenews.com/supremecourt2.jpgShould President Bush replace O’Connor with a pro-life jurist, a majority of the court would ban a partial-birth abortion ban and would be just one vote away from the five votes necessary to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision.

Abortion advocates and pro-life organizations understand this tenuous court position.

“The resignation of Justice O’Connor creates a devastating and dangerous moment,” said Planned Parenthood interim president Karen Pearl. “Her departure places women’s health at risk, endangering the future of reproductive rights in this nation.”

Jan LaRue of Concerned Women for America says Bush “has the historic opportunity to keep faith with the promise he has repeated numerous times, which is to name justices who are like Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.”

Planned Parenthood announced Friday that it is already planning a series of protests and rallies across the nation saying it was “sounding a call to arms.”
 
"With so much at stake, Planned Parenthood will be on the frontlines of the Supreme Court battles to ensure women’s health is protected,’’ said Pearl.

Pro-abortion groups aren’t confident Bush will select a nominee like O’Connor, who conservatives feel compromised the strong pro-life views of President Ronald Reagan, who appointed her in 1981.

“President Bush has a record of appointing extremists to the federal bench,” Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation abortion business trade group, said. “Recent examples of such lifetime appointments include Priscilla Owen, Janice Rogers Brown, and William Pryor. All of these nominees have shown an overwhelming hostility to Roe v. Wade.”

How successful Bush is at getting a pro-life nominee on the court depends on whether the Senate filibusters his appointment. If any member does, Bush will need 60 senators willing to stop debate and allow an up or down confirmation vote.

Bush is helped by a deal reached among 14 Democrat and Republican members, who promised not to use the filibuster except for “extraordinary circumstances.”

But, Saporta said her group would urge abortion advocates in the Senate to filibuster any pro-life nominee.

“Any nominee who would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade would be an extraordinary circumstance, and we would encourage a bipartisan filibuster to defeat such a nominee,” she said.

Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL said her group would specifically target senators, including Republicans she believes might be persuaded to cast off party lines and vote based on abortion.

Keenan said Republican senators “who are pro-choice will also be getting attention” such as Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins and Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee.

“These senators should ask a nominee if he or she would uphold Roe v. Wade,” she said.

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, says pro-life Americans are ready to fight hard to place another pro-life member on the Supreme Court.

“The public is primed for the fight it will take to confirm a nomine,” Perkins said. “We will wage an unprecedented effort for a fair and prompt up or down vote through the mobilization of 20,000 churches across the nation.”

Related web sites:
Family Research Council - frc.org
Concerned Women for America - cwfa.org
 
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Lisa4Catholics:
Please visit this thread and take action as well.
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=63119
Battle lines are being drawn we need to gather the troops!
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Thank You, Lisa:

In Christ, Michael
 
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