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In a 1993 address by Harriet Miers to Executive Women of Dallas, a nonprofit organization of professional women and those in upper management the Supreme Court nominee said:
"Abortion clinic protesters have become synonymous with terrorists" and that the courts were being "besieged" by cases challenging a woman's right to choose abortion."The ongoing debate continues surrounding the attempt to once again criminalize abortions or to once and for all guarantee the freedom of the individual woman's right to decide for herself whether she will have an abortion. The underlying theme in most of these cases is the insistence of more self-determination. And the more I think about these issues, the more self-determination makes the most sense. Legislating religion or morality we gave up on a long time ago."
Understandably, this has pissed off the right wing. Bush has apparently nominated someone, based on this speech, who thinks they are a bunch of busybody losers who want to put their nose where it doesn't belong. Concerned Women for America, a large, nutty, radical group of homo-hating fanatics, were so angry they told Miers to get lost.
The speeches "indicate a radical feminist worldview, a penchant for judicial activism, race and sex quotas, a liberal characterization of the abortion debate and government spending, and an inability to articulate her positions clearly," the group said in a statement."We do not think there is anything she could say at her hearing that would satisfy our concerns," Jan LaRue, chief counsel of Concerned Women for America, said in an interview with the L.A. Times.
My guess is that Concerned Women may get their wish. I suspect that other right wing leaders will reconsider their support. If Focus on the Family's James Dobson or the Southern Baptist Convention's Richard Land defects, the party is over for Miers. She's done.
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