1) No

2) No

3) Yes

4) No

I'm with you, except about focusing on privacy. (I've said why I think so here, which cites this post, which in turn has other links to elsewheres, including the Supreme Court opinions on the Casey case.)

A blog swarm is a great idea. But do we do it on Monday or Tuesday? We might want this to happen before they convene, yes? (They won't have hearings on Labor Day, will they?)

I'm with you, except about focusing on privacy. (I've said why I think so here, which cites this post, which in turn has other links to elsewheres.)

A blog swarm is a great idea. But when? On Monday or Tuesday? We might want this to happen before they convene, yes? (They won't do it on Labor Day, will they?)

I'm surprised to see my comment up. I kept getting comment template errors. fyi....

That's because I have it set up to "error" comments with a certain amount of links, but what it really does is put the comment in moderation. This site, on a bad day, was getting 500 spam comments a day. I'm in the middle of my night shift, so I got the email sooner than later. :)

We definitely need to do a swarm. I need to read your article; but will say one thing : Privacy encompasses more than just a women's reproductive rights. If it is an issue with legal language, then yeah, let's iron that one out. Maybe we can convey the message without having to say it. But he's part of Santorum's camp who basically do not believe PRIVACY is a right in the constitution. How can we address this head on, that he has written detail articles about this in the past, without using the fundies' frame and weakening our cause?

BTW, should we wiki this or listserv it? I can have a listserv up and running in about 3 hours.

I think framing it as a privacy AND liberty issue will be most effective.

Let's go with listserv as I'm still unclear on how to modify a wiki and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I'd agree with Lauren. The right to privacy is bound up in Liberty rights. We should ask them at every opportunity, What does the right to liberty include? What does it exclude? What is liberty if control over our own bodies and decisions about with whom we will have sex aren't included in it?

I agree with those four items, but it doesn't go far enough, and it leaves those of us in red states with no hope at all.

Here's the situation: The Dem's may or may not win with us, but they absolutely cannot win without us. That's the key to the situation and it would be foolish of us to let them continue to take advantage of us.

Solidarity is our only choice - we need to boycott Kos, demand that our rights be protected unequivocally, and remind everyone that rights not enumerated in the Constitution are specifically reserved to the people. If the Right to privacy isn't listed or limited therein, it is reserved to us. I haven't heard anyone mention this yet.

Why are we letting this sexist creep benefit from our time, attention and work? Why are we acting like we don't count - we're the majority!

This is a great idea.

I agree with Lauren re: privacy AND liberty. Human rights too.

And I agree with Morgaine about boycotting Kos and demanding that Democrats serve us better. If they're not going to fully support us, I'm not willing to support them.

i'm in. and i strongly support mediagirl's liberty argument.

and if you want to see who we're up against, check out bayprairie's post at Our Word: These politicians are your Health Care Providers

I also agree with Lauren that this is a privacy AND liberty issue. I agree with the rest, except I think it necessary to note my concerns on states rights.

The states rights thing is tougher for those of us in red states. In TN, some misogynist asshole (the author of the amendment changed from the last time it was introduced) has a state constitution amendment stating that no woman has the right to an abortion -- there is NO health, rape or incest exception (there is a companion amendment with the exxceptions should the first not gain enough support). This has been submitted before and failed (narrowly), this past year it was removed from the legislative agenda until 2006, for political reasons. I know that TN isn't the only state like this.

Also take into consideration that the NYTimes today, has an article on TN judges in Shelby county refusing to hear judical bypass cases on "moral" grounds.

I think it comes down to trying to make abortion rights a states rights issue will be just as much of an uphill battle for women in red states as it is at the federal level. I'm afraid that pushing this will conceivably cause more damage than good for many women in red states.