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Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights Protests Roberts Nomination (Photos&Audio)
Bay Area reproductive rights groups protested John Roberts’ nomination to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court as congressional hearings about his confirmation loom. Group responsible for keeping Operation Rescue out of the Bay Area in the eighties also asked Senator Dianne Feinstein to pose their questions to Roberts and hold federal government officials accountable for appointing justices who will defend the rights of all, as well as demand justice for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The questions that werepresented to Senator Feinstein and her staff, to be asked by the Senator in the hearings, included:
1. Judge Roberts, you stated that “privacy is an amorphous right” not necessarily found in the constitution. Many rights, including the right to own a home or secure private property, are guaranteed by the right to privacy. Where do you draw the line?
2. Judge Roberts, millions of women have died when abortion was illegal. Often these women had families and were trying to create a sustainable living situation for their existing children. Mr. Roberts, in explaining that abortion is not a right, what would you say to the families of women who died from illegal abortions?
3. Judge Roberts, what will you do to protect and expand women’s rights s to bear children or not, according to the dictates of the woman’s soul and reason?
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1. Judge Roberts, you stated that “privacy is an amorphous right” not necessarily found in the constitution. Many rights, including the right to own a home or secure private property, are guaranteed by the right to privacy. Where do you draw the line?
2. Judge Roberts, millions of women have died when abortion was illegal. Often these women had families and were trying to create a sustainable living situation for their existing children. Mr. Roberts, in explaining that abortion is not a right, what would you say to the families of women who died from illegal abortions?
3. Judge Roberts, what will you do to protect and expand women’s rights s to bear children or not, according to the dictates of the woman’s soul and reason?
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