Over the next months attention will be devoted to divining Judge Alito’s probable position on Roe v. Wade. Will he affirm it or overrule it or chip away at it? No matter what happens to his nomination, states will continue to line up to send the Supreme Court new laws restricting or criminalizing abortion in whole or in part in hopes that the Roberts Court will overturn Roe or at least weaken it more.
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HaitiThe Failed State in the Americas
The foreign policy rage of the past few years has been the failed state—Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Sudan, maybe even Iraq. But we in the Americas have one right in our backyard—Haiti. Continue reading
Responding to Cohen’s “Support Choice, Not Roe”
In response to Richard Cohen’s article, “Support Choice, Not Roe,” in October 20’s Washington Post
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Getting to a Nominee’s View of the Constitution
Harriet Miers has submitted her response to the questionnaire of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Her response reveals her to be a competent, ambitious, corporate functionary. She rose through the ranks to lead her law firm and the Texas Bar while representing big corporations (that’s what big law firms do) and participating in every conceivable community/legal/charitable/do-good organization in sight. No wonder she didn’t have much of a personal life. She was out networking, connecting, schmoozing and getting ahead. Like Woody Allen, she showed the value of “showing up”. Even so, she ends up with a fraction of the net worth of John Roberts. Maybe she should have come to Washington sooner. John Roberts’s questionnaire revealed precious little in community involvement, in fact virtually none. He was a legal eagle with little time for the rest of life.
Article in the Oklahoma City Pioneer
See page six of the for “Abortion in the Spotlight” by Tina Morlock. Note: The newspaper is in PDF form — click here to download it.
Recent Articles in the Press
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Who Has Abortions
I was asked by a student at Oklahoma City Community College this week who has abortions. This is the latest information from the Alan Guttmacher Institute. It is available at www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html. Continue reading
Tribute to Avabai Wadia
Alexander Sanger, Avabai Wadia, and Prime Minister I. K. Gujral, shaking hands
Avabai Wadia, a distinguished leader of the IPPF, died July 11, 2005 at the age of 91. She didn’t seem that old. She had, like her friend and my grandmother, Margaret Sanger, a countenance made youthful by her lifetime of devotion to the great cause we all work for. Her zest for our cause was with her until the very end. In 1998, I traveled to Bombay (now Mumbai) to deliver a speech to the FPAI. Avabai was gracious enough to introduce me to the audience and to remark that I was a much better speaker than my grandmother was! I don’t know if I won over the audience, but her flattery won me over.
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