Thursday, March 02, 2006

It needs to be said again and again

Jane Hamsher has been all over this, but it needs to be said all over, now that folks like Joe Lieberman, Lincoln Chaffee, and Arlen Specter have allowed Alito to make it to the Supreme Court, their duplicity is coming home to roost. And they are allowed to get away with it, in large part, because NARAL is nothing if not woefully ineffective. Apparently, lip service is good enough for NARAL, especially when they can use the spectre of Roe being overturned to raise money. And thanks to their lack of actual effort to use pressure against the enablers of Alito, that's the situation.

First South Dakota and now Mississippi are on the verge of passing legislation that effectively bans abortion. All believing that the new make up of the court will lead to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

I doubt the Supreme Court will actually hear either of these cases. I also believe that injunctions will quickly be issued against the laws and though their will be appeals, the matters will effectively end there. Unless the GOP gets one more appointment. If that happens then NARAL (and Lieberman, Chaffee, etc.) will be on the verge of letting the rest of us reap what they have sowed.

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