Posted by: George
Comment: #1
Fri Aug 8, 2008 7:29 PM
Ms Chavez: I hardly think that a reasoned, nuanced position on the full citizenship of women in this country is "talking out of both sides of one's mouth". What of the millions of Catholics who practice contraception (also forbidden by the Church) simply because they can't afford six children? Are they then "Catholic-lite". There are, too, the thorny matters of the primacy of conscience, "the pursuit of happiness", the dignity of people to make difficult moral choices without government busybodies intervening (surely a conservative position). We live in a secular society, not a religious one---, those we find in Iran, Syria, Saudia Arabia and other locations. To attempt to simplify this issue as an Obama flip-flop is to do a grave injustice to this constitutional lawyer, who, from all I have read, has thought long and hard about this and many other issues. Perhaps if the Supreme Court of the United States had a few more women presiding , the rest of the female population wouldn't have to worry so much about their citizenship every time they get pregnant.
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