HordeKing1
07-25-2002, 07:22 PM
Here's an example of the kind of women that Bush likes to appoint. He's set the cause of equality of the sexes back 20 years.
CALL THE WHITE HOUSE TO PROTEST!!
7/24/02
Since taking office, President Bush has nominated numerous anti-choice judges to the federal judiciary. The most recent nominee to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee is Priscilla Owen, who has been nominated to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Justice Owen has actively demonstrated hostility to women's reproductive freedom and her nomination must be rejected.
Judge Owen currently serves as a Justice on the Texas Supreme Court. During her tenure, she has written several opinions suggesting a higher standard than what the law explicitly requires for minors attempting to access abortion services when they feel they cannot involve a parent. She has written several opinions that have advocated that Texas statutes regulating access of minors to abortion be interpreted to make access without the involvement of a parent exceedingly difficult. Her opinions were so extreme that even President Bush's White House Counsel, who was also a Texas Supreme Court Justice at the time of Owen's opinions, accused her of committing an "unconscionable act of judicial activism".
Justice Owen's record in these cases demonstrates more than insensitivity--and perhaps hostility--to the plight of a young woman who feels that she cannot involve a parent in her decision to have an abortion. It demonstrates her willingness to engage in judicial activism and to create hurdles that simply are not to be found in the words of the statute, in order to limit the exercise of a fundamental right.
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CALL THE WHITE HOUSE TO PROTEST!!
7/24/02
Since taking office, President Bush has nominated numerous anti-choice judges to the federal judiciary. The most recent nominee to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee is Priscilla Owen, who has been nominated to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Justice Owen has actively demonstrated hostility to women's reproductive freedom and her nomination must be rejected.
Judge Owen currently serves as a Justice on the Texas Supreme Court. During her tenure, she has written several opinions suggesting a higher standard than what the law explicitly requires for minors attempting to access abortion services when they feel they cannot involve a parent. She has written several opinions that have advocated that Texas statutes regulating access of minors to abortion be interpreted to make access without the involvement of a parent exceedingly difficult. Her opinions were so extreme that even President Bush's White House Counsel, who was also a Texas Supreme Court Justice at the time of Owen's opinions, accused her of committing an "unconscionable act of judicial activism".
Justice Owen's record in these cases demonstrates more than insensitivity--and perhaps hostility--to the plight of a young woman who feels that she cannot involve a parent in her decision to have an abortion. It demonstrates her willingness to engage in judicial activism and to create hurdles that simply are not to be found in the words of the statute, in order to limit the exercise of a fundamental right.
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