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Advocates Eager To Learn More About Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor's Abortion-Rights Views
Abortion-rights groups on Wednesday offered their support for Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor but said that they were eager to learn more about her views on abortion rights, an issue on which she has made few major rulings in her time as a judge, the New York Times reports. According to the Times, groups on both sides of the abortion-rights debate tend to believe that Sotomayor would uphold Roe v. Wade because she was nominated by President Obama, who supports abortion rights. However, when asked on Tuesday if Obama questioned Sotomayor about her views on abortion rights before the nomination, White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs said that the president "did not ask that specifically." In addition, none of her rulings has directly dealt with the underlying issues of constitutional privacy that are the foundation for the Roe decision, according to the Times.
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Pro-Abortion Group Funded by Development and Peace Removes Evidence from Website
A pro-abortion organization funded by the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP) has removed statements from its website expressing enthusiastic support for Mexico City's law permitting abortion on demand for the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
The statements were originally reported by LifeSiteNews in March of this year as part of ongoing coverage of CCODP's support for pro-abortion organizations worldwide, The CCODP is an arm of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and claims to oppose the legalization of abortion.
Although the organization, the All Rights for Everyone Network (Red Todos los Derechos para Todos - TDT) has eliminated the material from its website, LSN has saved copies of the web pages, which also remain in the cache of the world's largest search engine, Google. LSN is also obtaining signed affadavits from witnesses who attest that they have viewed and printed out the pages in question from the internet.
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Pro-Life Protesters Arrested on ND Campus to Return to South Bend to Face Charges
Dozens of pro-life protesters arrested at the University of Notre Dame on May 17 for protesting President Obama's commencement speech will be heading back to Indiana in coming weeks from all across the country to stand trial. While Notre Dame had pro-life demonstrators summarily arrested for "criminal trespassing," witnesses say that pro-Obama demonstrators were given free roam of the campus - a fact that the pro-lifers' attorney says violated the Equal Protection clause.
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Is Sotomayor a "Souter" on Roe v. Wade for the Abortion Movement? All Signs Point to No
A flurry of media coverage in recent days has reported on the unease among some pro-abortion constituencies that Obama's Supreme Court nominee could turn out to be a "David Souter" for the pro-abortion movement. Justice Souter was famously nominated by George H.W. Bush in 1990 and highly feted by conservatives as an anti-Roe justice. However, the Supreme Court judge has disappointed conservatives by consistently casting a pro-abortion vote on the Supreme Court ever since.
Sotomayor, a federal judge serving on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, has been nominated by President Obama to replace Souter, who is retiring from the court this summer.
However, despite reported pro-abortion concerns a number of signs contradict the possibility that Sotomayor would ever rule against the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. The latest comes in the form of Planned Parenthood's wholehearted endorsement on Wednesday of Sotomayor as a judge who "respects precedent."
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Ultrasound of Unborn Child Must be Made Available to Women Seeking Abortion: Nebraska Legislature
The Nebraska Legislature has passed a bill, introduced by Senator Tony Fulton, that requires abortionists to make an ultrasound of the unborn child available to a woman seeking an abortion if she requests it.
Furthermore, if the woman asks for a detailed medical analysis of the ultrasound, she must be given information detailing the size of the child, any cardiac activity, and information regarding "external members and internal organs, if present and viewable."
Supporters of the bill say that this will enable women to make a more informed decision.
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