January 22, 2009- 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and the debate continues
It all makes sense now. I returned to Columbus, OH from DC on January 22, 2009. While out and about, I noticed a group of pro-life demonstrators on the steps of City Hall. They, too, were likely rallying together on the anniversary (because saying birthday has way too many implications) of the Roe versus Wade decision.
Excerpt from MSNBC…
The case started in Texas back in 1970. A pregnant woman, under the alias “Jane Roe,” led a class action lawsuit against that state’s anti-abortion laws. Then in 1973, the Supreme Court ruled laws banning abortion violated constitutional rights to privacy.
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Hmmm, I never made the connection before. My birth year coincides with this landmark decision.
From The Washington Post…
The inauguration of a president who supports abortion rights fired up the annual March for Life yesterday, with activists warning of new, more liberal legislation and urging President Obama to view abortion as a civil-rights issue akin to slavery.
Signs read: “Yes we can — eliminate abortion.” One speaker took the microphone and called for anti-abortion “community organizers,” a job the president held in Chicago. Another taunted Obama with references to one of his heroes.
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Excerpt from NPR…
Thursday marks the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. It’s also likely to mark the day President Barack Obama will reverse at least a few of the anti-abortion policies of George W. Bush.
By now, it’s become something of a tradition.
In 2001, just two days after he took office, Bush used the Roe anniversary to issue executive orders reversing some of the abortion rights policies of his predecessor, Bill Clinton, just as Clinton had used his first Roe anniversary, in 1993, to override some of the anti-abortion policies of President George H.W. Bush.
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I don’t want to get into a nasty debate on this subject because there are people out there that hold passionately to their views to a fault. However, at least take a moment to reflect on your own life and the impact this decision has had.
