Bonnie Rogoff
Choice and consequences
By Bonnie Rogoff
He has impressive credentials and presumably holds a conservative judicial philosophy. But is he pro-life? Will he be a strict constructionist on important social issues, or is he a "stealth" liberal who will follow in Justice David Souter's footsteps to ruin the Supreme Court for decades to come? These questions cannot be answered right now with regard to Judge John G. Roberts. There is no extensive paper trail on this candidate to verify his abortion stance and he has never ruled on this issue. He is an establishment conservative and a Harvard grad, hardly a right-winger in the Judge Edith Jones mold.
With the despicable Senator Chuck Schumer legislating from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Roberts faces a battle toward confirmation. On the question of Roe v. Wade Judge Roberts must answer correctly, by saying he's personally opposed but Roe is "settled law." He also can't point out the consequences of Roe, although he should. Everyone knows abortions kill babies. However, women are dying today from "safe legal choices" at an alarming rate and nothing is being done about it. Feminist organizations have turned a deaf ear to these tragic deaths. Here are examples of legal abortion butchery:
Wichita, Kansas: At George Tiller's facility, two women died of botched abortions in 2005. Over the past 18 months, several women were seriously injured and transported by ambulance from his mill to a nearby hospital. As reported by Operation Rescue last June: "Today's abortion injury comes almost two weeks to the day after the Kansas Legislature failed to override Governor Sebelius' veto of the clinic licensing bill that would have provided minimum safety standards for abortion clinics." Tiller's specialty is partial birth abortion which he performs throughout the entire pregnancy. He is suspected of performing abortions on late-term Down's Syndrome children, a violation of Kansas State law. In "Death By Drowning," Lynn Vincent provides documentation indicating that Tiller's facility may be violating the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
Topeka, Kansas: Abortionist Krishna Rajanna was accused of eating fetuses stored in his refrigerator. He lost his medical license, and his mill is now permanently closed. Another Operation Rescue article disclosed the house of horrors with its "blood-soaked carpeting" and "improperly sterilized surgical instruments." The Kansas Board of Healing Arts knew about this hellhole for two years, but fined Rajanna only $1,000 last February and finally closed him down last month.
Miami, Florida: LifeNews.com Editor Steven Ertelt disclosed that two abortion business owners used unlicensed people to perform abortion procedures. In a previous article last May, he reported that the Florida State Senate rejected a bill that would have put "more stringent safety measures in place to ensure women are not injured by abortions and to make sure abortion facilities comply with the same sort of regulations that apply to other surgical facilities."
Livermore, California: When Holly Patterson died from an RU-486 "safe choice" administered by Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, I wrote:
Will the FDA hear the wake up call and pull RU-486 off the market? Don't hold your breath. I predict a sanitized version of the cause of death and revised guidelines for the drug. Afterward, the FDA will lapse into silence, RU-486 will remain legal and deadly, and poor Holly Patterson will have died for nothing.
The FDA guidelines were revised eight months ago, but no cause-effect relationship was admitted between the drugs and the deaths. Another woman recently died from RU-486, bringing the total known drug death count up to five. On July 19, 2005, the FDA issued a "public health advisory highlighting the risk of sepsis or blood infection," but the agency and Danco (the maker of the drug) are under fire to change labeling laws or preferably, ban it.
Monty Patterson (Holly's father) is speaking publicly about the dangers of RU-486, and he believes more women are dying from the drug than is being reported. Four of the five deaths occurred in California, and in all four cases the FDA guidelines for administering the drug were ignored. A little-known fact is that Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is partly responsible for these deaths. It was Ms. Boxer who pressured the FDA in a June 9, 2000 letter to legalize the drug without sufficient safety testing, citing "draconian restrictions."
On the NARAL Pro-Choice California website there's not a word about any of the RU-486 deaths. There is nothing about the 676 complaints to the FDA of bad side effects from the drug, the massive infections, ectopic pregnancies, or complications where dozens of women nearly bled to death. Instead, NARAL presents fact sheets assuring women of the drug's safety and efficacy.
Radical feminist Kim Gandy is the President of the National Organization for Women. NOW's website states nothing about the women currently dying from legal abortions. However, there is a page called "In Remembrance: Women Who Died from Illegal and Unsafe Abortion." They specify not thousands or hundreds, but seven women whose illegal abortion deaths occurred from 1929 – 1988. Statistics regarding illegal abortion deaths have been intentionally inflated. It was Dr. Mary Calderone, former Medical Director of Planned Parenthood who stated in the July 1960 issue of the American Journal of Public Health that "90 percent of illegal abortions are being done by qualified physicians." Rather than admit the consequences of Roe have endangered women by allowing abortion butchers to get away with murder, the shrill message conveyed by NOW is that "women's lives are on the line" now that an "anti-Roe" judge was nominated to the court.
Which lives are those, Ms. Gandy? Holly Patterson's, the other victims of RU-486, the women dying in filthy unregulated mills across America, or the millions of unborn aborted women you callously call unwanted byproducts of safe legal choice?
So, when Charles Schumer asks Judge Roberts: "Roe has dramatically changed women's lives, don't you agree?" without hesitation, Roberts should answer: "Yes, I agree. It's killing them."
© Bonnie Rogoff
He has impressive credentials and presumably holds a conservative judicial philosophy. But is he pro-life? Will he be a strict constructionist on important social issues, or is he a "stealth" liberal who will follow in Justice David Souter's footsteps to ruin the Supreme Court for decades to come? These questions cannot be answered right now with regard to Judge John G. Roberts. There is no extensive paper trail on this candidate to verify his abortion stance and he has never ruled on this issue. He is an establishment conservative and a Harvard grad, hardly a right-winger in the Judge Edith Jones mold.
With the despicable Senator Chuck Schumer legislating from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Roberts faces a battle toward confirmation. On the question of Roe v. Wade Judge Roberts must answer correctly, by saying he's personally opposed but Roe is "settled law." He also can't point out the consequences of Roe, although he should. Everyone knows abortions kill babies. However, women are dying today from "safe legal choices" at an alarming rate and nothing is being done about it. Feminist organizations have turned a deaf ear to these tragic deaths. Here are examples of legal abortion butchery:
Wichita, Kansas: At George Tiller's facility, two women died of botched abortions in 2005. Over the past 18 months, several women were seriously injured and transported by ambulance from his mill to a nearby hospital. As reported by Operation Rescue last June: "Today's abortion injury comes almost two weeks to the day after the Kansas Legislature failed to override Governor Sebelius' veto of the clinic licensing bill that would have provided minimum safety standards for abortion clinics." Tiller's specialty is partial birth abortion which he performs throughout the entire pregnancy. He is suspected of performing abortions on late-term Down's Syndrome children, a violation of Kansas State law. In "Death By Drowning," Lynn Vincent provides documentation indicating that Tiller's facility may be violating the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
Topeka, Kansas: Abortionist Krishna Rajanna was accused of eating fetuses stored in his refrigerator. He lost his medical license, and his mill is now permanently closed. Another Operation Rescue article disclosed the house of horrors with its "blood-soaked carpeting" and "improperly sterilized surgical instruments." The Kansas Board of Healing Arts knew about this hellhole for two years, but fined Rajanna only $1,000 last February and finally closed him down last month.
Miami, Florida: LifeNews.com Editor Steven Ertelt disclosed that two abortion business owners used unlicensed people to perform abortion procedures. In a previous article last May, he reported that the Florida State Senate rejected a bill that would have put "more stringent safety measures in place to ensure women are not injured by abortions and to make sure abortion facilities comply with the same sort of regulations that apply to other surgical facilities."
Livermore, California: When Holly Patterson died from an RU-486 "safe choice" administered by Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, I wrote:
Will the FDA hear the wake up call and pull RU-486 off the market? Don't hold your breath. I predict a sanitized version of the cause of death and revised guidelines for the drug. Afterward, the FDA will lapse into silence, RU-486 will remain legal and deadly, and poor Holly Patterson will have died for nothing.
The FDA guidelines were revised eight months ago, but no cause-effect relationship was admitted between the drugs and the deaths. Another woman recently died from RU-486, bringing the total known drug death count up to five. On July 19, 2005, the FDA issued a "public health advisory highlighting the risk of sepsis or blood infection," but the agency and Danco (the maker of the drug) are under fire to change labeling laws or preferably, ban it.
Monty Patterson (Holly's father) is speaking publicly about the dangers of RU-486, and he believes more women are dying from the drug than is being reported. Four of the five deaths occurred in California, and in all four cases the FDA guidelines for administering the drug were ignored. A little-known fact is that Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is partly responsible for these deaths. It was Ms. Boxer who pressured the FDA in a June 9, 2000 letter to legalize the drug without sufficient safety testing, citing "draconian restrictions."
On the NARAL Pro-Choice California website there's not a word about any of the RU-486 deaths. There is nothing about the 676 complaints to the FDA of bad side effects from the drug, the massive infections, ectopic pregnancies, or complications where dozens of women nearly bled to death. Instead, NARAL presents fact sheets assuring women of the drug's safety and efficacy.
Radical feminist Kim Gandy is the President of the National Organization for Women. NOW's website states nothing about the women currently dying from legal abortions. However, there is a page called "In Remembrance: Women Who Died from Illegal and Unsafe Abortion." They specify not thousands or hundreds, but seven women whose illegal abortion deaths occurred from 1929 – 1988. Statistics regarding illegal abortion deaths have been intentionally inflated. It was Dr. Mary Calderone, former Medical Director of Planned Parenthood who stated in the July 1960 issue of the American Journal of Public Health that "90 percent of illegal abortions are being done by qualified physicians." Rather than admit the consequences of Roe have endangered women by allowing abortion butchers to get away with murder, the shrill message conveyed by NOW is that "women's lives are on the line" now that an "anti-Roe" judge was nominated to the court.
Which lives are those, Ms. Gandy? Holly Patterson's, the other victims of RU-486, the women dying in filthy unregulated mills across America, or the millions of unborn aborted women you callously call unwanted byproducts of safe legal choice?
So, when Charles Schumer asks Judge Roberts: "Roe has dramatically changed women's lives, don't you agree?" without hesitation, Roberts should answer: "Yes, I agree. It's killing them."
© Bonnie Rogoff
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