IconoclasT wrote:
] Laughing Boy wrote:
] ] ] A federal appeals court has agreed to hear a request from
] ] ] the woman formerly known as "Jane Roe" to reconsider the
] ] ] 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade that
] ] ] legalized abortion.
] ] ]
] ] ] Norma McCorvey, who joined with anti-abortion activists
] ] ] nearly 10 years ago, is seeking to have the decision
] ] ] overturned, citing what she says is more than 30 years of
] ] ] evidence that abortions are psychologically harmful to
] ] ] women.
] ] ]
] ] ] A federal district judge threw out her initial request in
] ] ] June, saying it was not made within a reasonable time.
] ] ] But the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
] ] ] Appeals has agreed to hear McCorvey's arguments March 2.
] ] ]
] ] ] "It's something that I've wanted ever since Day One, and
] ] ] it's happening," McCorvey said from her Dallas home.
] ] ]
] ] ] Dallas County District Attorney Bill Hill, whose
] ] ] predecessor Henry Wade who was named in the original
] ] ] lawsuit, has not filed a response to McCorvey's appeal.
] ] ] That may put the appeals court in the unusual position of
] ] ] hearing arguments from only one side.
]
] Why do the left and the right hop on this so stongly? You'd
] think we have much larger issues to concern ourselves with in
] this troubled planet. Do I like the idea of abortions? No. Am
] I gonna take a position and protest for or against? No.
] Frankly, I have more important things to worry about.

Yea, well we also have people protesting till they are red in the face about flags... "you can't desecrate the American flag..." "the Confederate battle emblem has to go...". The time and money wasted on these matters is insane.

LB

RE: Court to hear case to reopen Roe V. Wade