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January 3, 2006
Countdown to hearings begin
Alito’s hearings are set to begin on January 9. Scary.
And of course, abortion will be a huge focus of the questioning--specifically a 1980s case where Alito upheld a restriction requiring that women obtaining abortions notify their husbands. You know, cause us feeble girls can’t make big decisions on our own.
Senators are expected to grill Alito about the case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, at his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, scheduled to begin Jan. 9. They're also expected to ask him about memos he wrote in the 1980s in which he said Roe should be overturned.
While the court's decision in Casey upheld a constitutional right to abortion, the justices gave states new powers to make it more difficult for women to end their pregnancies. For that reason, activists on both sides regard Casey as the court's most important abortion case since Roe, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
Since Casey, state legislatures have approved hundreds of new regulations that determine when, where and how women may get abortions.
Let’s just hope that folks are little harder on Alito than they were on Roberts.
Note: BushvChoice is going to have some cool stuff going on starting the week of the hearings, so make sure to come back often. And no, I won’t tell you yet. It’s a surprise.
Posted by Jessica at January 3, 2006 9:18 AM
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