Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama critisicized recent US Supreme Court decisions as "hypocritical and inconsistant" on tuesday. He was saying a ruling that is upholding a late term abortion ban was part of a concerted effort to roll back womens rights. Fellow Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, has also been seen at conferences for abortion rights. The two leading Democrats in the 2008 presidential race courted women activists at the conference and said President George W. Bush was taking direct aim at overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion. Obama said the court's 5-4 rulings to uphold the late-term abortion ban, make it harder for women to sue over pay discrimination and strike down race-based school assignment programs were part an effort "to steadily roll back the hard-won rights of American women."
"There is an inconsistency, and I believe a hypocrisy, in terms of how we see these decisions being issued," the Illinois senator said of the Supreme Court.
"When the science is inconvenient, when the facts don't match up with the ideology, they are cast aside," he said.
"At the top of the list was this effort to try to overturn Roe vs Wade or at least try to chip away at it," Clinton said, adding the Bush administration has waged war against contraception education and "set out from Day One to dismantle reproduction rights around the world."
Also appearing at the conference sponsored by the action fund of Planned Parenthood, a leading provider of reproductive services including abortion, was Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential contender John Edwards.Clinton, a New York senator, leads Democratic White House contenders six months before the first votes in the nominating race and 16 months before the November 2008 election. Polls show her with large leads among Democratic women voters. Both she and Obama said they would take a different approach in their Supreme Court appointments than Bush.
"I would appoint well-qualified judges who really respect the Constitution," Clinton said.
Obama said he would look into the heart of a potential Supreme Court nominee. "We need somebody who's got the empathy to recognize what it's like to be a young teen-aged mom," he said.
i am definatly in agreement witih the two democratic candidates in showing support for womens rights and their right to abortion. i think a women should have her own choices over her own body and she is to decide if she is or isnt ready for a baby. I think it is a good idea to get someone in office who will make sure the Roe vs. Wade ruling doesnt change.
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I think that every woman has the right to chose whether or not they should have a baby. Womens rights are very important to me and I am sure our society too.
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