O'Connor Resigns: Women's Lives Are at Stake

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Subject: O'Connor Resigns: Women's Lives Are at Stake
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:07:22 -0400

Women's lives are at stake. Tell your Senators to oppose any Supreme Court nominee who would threaten women's rights and civil liberties.

Please contact your Senators immediately and urge them to oppose any nominee who would overturn Roe v. Wade or limit the civil and human rights of any group of people.

With the resignation of Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, George W. Bush will have the opportunity to replace a justice who has often made the difference in the preservation of essential rights. With a fragile 5-to-4 split in the Court on issues like abortion and affirmative action, we must fight for the appointment of a justice who will uphold and protect our hard-won Constitutional rights. Justice O'Connor played that role in many key decisions for women. Urge your Senator to oppose any Supreme Court nominee who would overturn Roe v. Wade and limit the economic and reproductive rights of girls and women in the U.S.

Action Needed:

Please contact your Senators immediately and urge them to oppose any nominee to fill Justice O'Connor's vacancy who would overturn Roe v. Wade or limit the civil and human rights of any group of people.

After emailing your Senators, please call their local office (it's more effective than calling the DC office) to request a meeting with them or their chief of staff back home to discuss the importance of appointing a Justice who will uphold and protect all of our hard-won rights. You may not actually get a meeting, or it may be with a staff member, but a lot of requests for meetings will demonstrate the depth of our commitment.

Background:

As Texas governor, George W. Bush demonstrated that he doesn't require legal skills for a judicial nominees. His only requirement was that judges share his anti-abortion, pro-corporation ideology. Many of his nominations to the federal bench seem to have followed the same pattern.

The character and record of anyone nominated to our nation's highest court must be thoroughly reviewed and considered by the Senate in their important "advice and consent" role. The Senate must be certain the nominee can discern between personal conviction and interpretation of the law as they balance the interpretation of our Constitution and our democracy's promise to protect and expand the civil liberties of all people, not just the privileged few.

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