On Aug 30, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Jon Louis Mann wrote: > What is really scary is there are several Supreme Court justices > older than Mc Cain... > Jon
And that's what it comes down to. Whoever is elected this year will very likely be appointing Supreme Court justices, and the positions most likely to open up are on the liberal side of a very shaky 5-4 liberal majority, and the four conservative justices include at least one (Alito) who has gone on record as being dedicated to overturning most of the hard-won rulings of the 1970's (including Roe v Wade) that secured much of our current freedom today. This, while DHHS has been pushing for a change to the CFR that legally defines abortion so broadly that it includes almost all hormonal oral contraceptives, and gives doctors and pharmacists legal carte blanche to deny treatment and refuse to fill prescriptions based on "conscience" and "religious convictions" .. which in the worst case could open the door for states, freed by an overturned Roe v Wade ruling, to outlaw "abortion" *as defined by the DHHS-amended CFR definition of abortion* at will. Not small stakes in this election. Not at all. "She was a supersized meal of pop culture. We gobbled her down—in Playboy or on the E! network—felt a little sick afterward and then blamed her, like heart patients suing a fast-food chain." -- James Poniewozik in an essay about Anna Nicole Smith in Time magazine _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
