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Lieberman Tells TV He Supports Pro-Life Supreme Court

by Angela Field (angela [at] hotmail.com)
VP Nominee Says He Would Have Supported Bork For Court If Given The Chance.
Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Joe Lieberman says that the “most likely would have voted” to confirm Robert Bork as U.S. Supreme Court justice, had he been in the U.S. Senate when Bork was nominated for the post by President Reagan back in the 1980s.

“Bob Bork was a professor of mine at law school,” said Lieberman, during an interview on This Week on ABC-TV on Sunday. “He’s a great man. I most likely would have voted to confirm him had I been in the Senate.”

Bork, who is against a woman’s right to choose and is virulently anti-abortion, may well have overturned the landmark Roe. v. Wade case which provides the right to choose for women. Lieberman was elected to his Senate post in 1988.

Since Democratic Presidential Candidate Al Gore supported the candidacy of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court, and in the past has been known as an anti-choice politician, when he was in the Senate, the combination of Lieberman and Gore could be catastrophic for women voters, according to analysts. “Politicians who speak with forked tongues and metaphorical Pinnochio noses ought to be brought to account,” says Ralph Nader, the Green Party nominee for president, during a TV interview. Nader also said that President Clinton has disgraced the Office of the President of the United States, due to his conviction for contempt of court for lying under oath. “There’s an ethical, moral movement to put people back in charge,” said Nader.
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by Salim (salim [at] mashriq.org)
Usually I wouldn't say anything but I have to point out that there are several revolutionaries and progressives that view abortion as anti-women and as a tool of the capitalist elite to control the working class. I strongly question NOW as a progressive organization. Especially, in light of their continued endorsement for Gore-Lieberman. But if we do not work to alleviate the conditions which lead to abortion: poverty, despair, rape, incest and a general lack of respect for women's rights then we are setting ourselves up for continued killing in the name of a right which is usually exercised out of necessity not out of a belief that the act is not the ending of a life. So what does one do that recognized the need for women to make decisions based out of justice and empowerment yet believes that abortion is murder?

I am not saying anarchists for life is the final answer but it is an attempt to answer this very complicated question.

http://www.anarchsforlife.org


by mike (mikeg731 [at] hotmail.com)
How exactly is leaving the choice of procreation in the hands of the woman to whom it matters most in any way "anti-women?"
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