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NARAL Pro-Choice America
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Coming to a Courtroom Near You? Despite Failing
Reviews Last Year, Anti-Choice White House and Senators Reintroduce
Priscilla Part II
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- March 27 - "President Bush's decision to re-nominate conservative
judicial activist Priscilla Owen is unprecedented and provocative.
It clearly demonstrates his indebtedness to the ideological right.
The Senate Judiciary Committee's approval of Priscilla Owen today
is a discredit to the advise and consent role the Committee provides.
Owen's predisposition
as a known judicial activist poses a serious threat to freedom
of choice. Many courts are allowing anti-choice laws to stand,
and adding an activist like Priscilla Owen will exacerbate this
trend and further endanger a woman's constitutional right to choose.
NARAL Pro-Choice
America calls on the Senate to reject Priscilla Owen's nomination
and protect the courts from a nominee who is hostile to civil
and reproductive rights. Fair-minded Senators are the last firewall
against the Administration's strategy to pack the federal courts
with ideologues."
Click
here to read more about Priscilla Owen
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