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KEEPING THE FAITH ACTION ALERT June 28, 2005 The Court and the Ten Commandments Monday’s convoluted decision by the U. S. Supreme Court did little or nothing to settle the question about the display of the Ten Commandments in the public square. Ruling 5-4 against framed copies in two Kentucky courthouses, and then subsequently ruling 5-4 for a six foot granite display on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol, it is obvious that the Justices tried to have it both ways. Not willing to go against 76% (a recent AP poll) of the American people who favor displaying the Ten Commandments, they shied away from banning them altogether on government property. Visions of sand blasting them off the Supreme Court chamber where they sit in their black robes and hand down their elitist opinions, had to enter into their decision to allow them in “some places.” They were smart enough not to go down that road and risk the fierce backlash to such an action by the majority of the people. The secularists aided and abetted by the courts, will stop at nothing to expunge God from the public square, resulting in what Father John Neuhaus has referred to as “the naked public square.” That is, a public square stripped of all reference to religion and religiously grounded morality. Morality is derived from religion, and without religion there is no morality. Aspiring to the good provides us with a barrier against evil. The battle over the Ten Commandments is about more than a framed copy hanging on a courthouse wall or a monument on government property. Rather, it is about the ultimate question, “How ought we to order our life together?” The secularists would have you believe that individuals or societies should be the source of right and wrong. While we believe it is only when the majority embraces a religion that adheres to moral absolutes can we have as Jefferson said “liberties that are the gift of God.” Without the acknowledgement of God, there are no transcendent truths only a subjective opinion with everyone doing what is right in their own eyes. If that happens, then freedom for all will become a distant memory. We are treading on dangerous ground. *****
Brownback holds hearing
on Roe v. Wade decision WASHINGTON - The women behind the Supreme Court cases that led to legalized abortion told a Senate panel Thursday they never intended to help the abortion rights movement and claimed they were duped by lawyers representing them more than three decades ago. The anti-abortion views of Norma McCorvey and Sandra Cano, the anonymous plaintiffs in Roe v. Wade and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, are well-known, but it is the first time both have testified together in Congress. Both women have tried unsuccessfully to overturn the cases that have spawned years of bitter debate over the question of abortion. They were called, along with legal and medical experts, to testify on the consequences of the 1973 decisions that found a Constitutional right to abortion. The hearing before a packed Senate conference room was convened by Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, an ardent abortion opponent who is eyeing a run for president. He called it "the first in a series to highlight the effect certain Supreme Court decisions have had on American life." Brownback, chairman of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, already has held hearings this year on the need for a constitutional amendment to protect marriage and the need for more federal obscenity prosecutions. Cano, 57, told the panel she was uneducated, poor and pregnant with her fourth child when lawyers recruited her to challenge Georgia's anti-abortion statute. She claims she never authorized lawyers to say she wanted an abortion. "I feel like my name, life and identity have been stolen and put on this case without my knowledge and against my wishes," Cano said. McCorvey, 58, called herself "a pawn of the legal system" and recounted her decision to join the anti-abortion movement 10 years ago after she spent time working in an abortion clinic. Neither Cano nor McCorvey ever had the abortions at issue in their cases. Among those testifying in favor of Roe v. Wade was Kenneth Edelin, associate dean of Boston University School of Medicine. Edelin recounted his experience as a young doctor in 1966 trying to save the life of woman who had a botched illegal abortion and urged lawmakers not to "turn back the clock" on abortion rights.
TESTIMONY OF SANDRA
CANO The Doe v. Bolton Supreme Court decision bears my name. I am Sandra Cano, the former “Doe” of Doe v. Bolton. Doe v. Bolton is the companion case to Roe v. Wade. Using my name and life, Doe v. Bolton falsely created the health exception that led to abortion on demand and partial birth abortion. How it got there is still pretty much a mystery to me. I only sought legal assistance to get a divorce from my husband and to get my children from foster care. I was very vulnerable: poor and pregnant with my fourth child, but abortion never crossed my mind. Although it apparently was utmost in the mind of the attorney from whom I sought help. At one point during the legal proceedings, it was necessary for me to flee to Oklahoma to avoid the pressure being applied to have the abortion scheduled for me by this same attorney. Please understand even though I have lived what many would consider an unstable life and overcome many devastating circumstances, at NO TIME did I ever have an abortion. I did not seek an abortion nor do I believe in abortion. Yet my name and life is now forever linked with the slaughter of 40-50 million babies. I have tried to understand how it all happened. How did my divorce and child custody case become the basis by which bloody murder is done on infants thriving in the wombs of their mothers? How can cunning, wicked lawyers use an uneducated, defenseless pregnant woman to twist the American court system in such a fraudulent way? Doe has been a nightmare. Over the last 32 years, I have become a prisoner of the case. It took me until 1988 to get my records unsealed in order for me to try and find the answer to those questions and to join in the movement to stop abortion in America. When pro abortion advocates found out about my efforts; my car was vandalized on one occasion and at another time, someone shot at me while I was on my front porch holding my grandbaby. I am angry. I feel like my name, life, and identity have been stolen and put on this case without my knowledge and against my wishes. How dare they use my name and my life this way! One of the Justices of the Supreme Court said during oral argument in my case “What does it matter if she is real or not.” Well I am real and it does matter. I was in court under a false name and lies. I was never cross-examined in court. Doe v. Bolton is based on a lie and deceit. It needs to be retried or overturned. Doe v. Bolton is against my wishes. Abortion is wrong. I love children. I would never harm a child and yet because of this case I feel like I bear the guilt of over 46 million innocent children being killed. The Supreme Court is also guilty. The bottom line is I want abortion stopped in my name. I want the case which was supposedly to benefit me, be either overturned or retried. If it is retried, at least I will have an opportunity to speak for myself in court, something that never happened before. My lawyers at The Justice Foundation have collected affidavits from over one thousand women hurt by abortion. We have filed those affidavits in a motion to reverse Doe which is now on its way to the Supreme Court through the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. I am also giving you a copy of my affidavit in the case. Millions of babies have been killed. Millions of women have been hurt horribly. It is time to get my name and life out of this case and its time to stop the killing.
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