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Then, of course, there is the abortion-rights litmus test. Despite the shrill cries of the left-wing Cassandras—who have rushed to condemn Alito as a fire-breathing Roe-overturning conservative—he has a decidedly nuanced record. In his four abortion-related cases, he has ruled in favor of abortion rights three times. Even in the exception, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Alito merely ruled that spousal notification was not an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to an abortion, given that the law provided exemptions for unusual...
...Samuel Alito in 1991 when the appeals court judge was considering Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. That case, involving Pennsylvania laws that placed obstacles in the way of women seeking an abortion, would eventually be addressed in a controversial 5-4 Supreme Court decision that essentially upheld Roe v. Wade. Though the Court agreed with Alito and the other two judges from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, there was one key difference. Alito argued for upholding a law requiring married women to notify their husbands before getting an abortion, a decision that's getting...
Whatever one thinks about the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, there can be little doubt of its judicial aggressiveness. At the time, the abortion issue, although hardly unsung, had been debated fully in only a few state legislatures. By grabbing the case, locating a previously unspecified right to abortion in the Constitution and telling the states to respect that right, the Justices effectively defined the issue and pre-empted a legislative solution. The result: the court was stuck particularizing its position for the next 20 years...
...justice." With the Right on a rampage over what some saw as a betrayal, Dobson spoke of "things that I'm privy to that I can't describe because of confidentiality." Had Dobson received an assurance from Rove that Miers, now the White House counsel, would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade? Democrats suspected so, and said they would call Dobson as a witness at her confirmation hearing, which is likely to begin late this month or in early November...
...that would not be supportive of abortion, that she had been a member of the Texas Right to Life." Even so, Dobson says, ?Rove didn't tell me anything about the way Harriet Miers would vote on cases that may come before the Supreme Court. We did not discuss Roe v. Wade in any context or any other pending issue that will be considered by the court...