Sen. Feinstein
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), following Sen. DeWine, said she could not vote for someone who might vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
She also went directly at issues before the court in the next term and to those on their way to the court, specifically mentioning the standards for reviewing abortion rights; the question of physician-assisted suicide; the application of antitrust laws with regard to energy prices; the rights of enemy combatants, and the Endangered Species Act.
"If you ... subscribe to the Rehnquist court's restrictive ability to legislate" on many issues, Feinstein said, that would be a problem.
"As the only woman on the committee," she said, she had a special job to make sure that the "hard-earned autonomy" of women is protected.
Watch Sen. Feinstein's opening remarks below:
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September 12, 2005; 1:41 PM ET
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Posted by: SandyK | September 12, 2005 01:58 PM
Do you ever get the feeling that feminists have run out of things to complain about? Is abortion the only cause you have left? Does it not occur to some people that someone can take a principled stand against their side of an issue without divesting women of their "hard-earned autonomy"?
Posted by: Rick Cobb | September 12, 2005 04:01 PM
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Yo, Feinstein,
What would you do if Roe vs. Wade is overturned? Complain? Not likely will you get a chance to get it reversed, due to the skullduggery your colleage TED Kennedy has done.
Make reactionary law, and get reactionary counter-law. Social change has to come by the people, not by courts. Because it'll backfire and cause the mess we have from race relations to tax reform.
What we're experiencing today isn't so much the "righting" of America, as it's the leveling the extremes from the Left over the years. Now the Right will rule for 50 years, while the Left has to take a back seat.
It didn't need to have happen. But the TED's of the parties won't acknowledge it.
SandyK