Here are some interesting observations by other feminists....

egalia:

When the male dominated state considers ordering you to tell your husband anything, it's time to wonder what country, or what century, you are living in.

On Fox News, they call Alito a man who supports more regulation of abortion. Of course, what this means is that Alito supports more regulation of women.

The Heretik:

THE HERETIK KNOWS the right will say Alito should be judged for who he is, not for whom Democrats fear he might be. Alito is "qualified" and a president should have his choices respected. The right is wrong. The sense of balance on the court is at stake. Roberts for Rhenquist? Right for right? Some murmurs, but okay. 1896 for 2005? No.

xyz:

You see, I was one of those poor fools who'd been molested at age 10 by a 17 year old, (You're so pretty, I adore you, now show me what you have. Boring, I know. As someone with a modicum of intelligence, I blamed myself for being so stupid. )

I hid in the ladies room till I was sure he was gone. And then I went and told my (female) supervisor. She was not sympathetic. She was currently sleeping with the director, which is why she was a supervisor. Needless to say, I didn't do 'well' at that company.

I went to college, thinking I'd rise above all that. I met a guy I 'wanted', so went to get the pill so I'd have some freedom. My doctor told me I was a sinner, and since he had no time for sinners, I did not leave with even a prescription. (Remember here: those who use moral objections to even filling a prescription for the morning after pill.)

You guessed it. I got pregnant. Before abortion was legal in my state, there I was.

Do you know what it's like to be single, pregnant, and alone?

I won't tell you the sordid story, but I insisted on abortion.

Do any of you know what it's like to sit and tell yourself, I know the odds, I may very well die, but the alternative is worse?

Do any of you know what it's like to knowingly put your life in the hands of a simple moneygrubber, and take your chances?

You keep telling yourself, oh no, that won't happen again.

I'm sitting here, and it's deja vu all over again.

Echidne of the Snakes:

The longer my thoughts linger over the appointment of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court the more aghast I become at what this tells about our president and his views on women:

Remember that the vacant seat belonged to the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court. Now that symbolic seat is offered to a man whose judicial past indicates that he would not only be willing to strike down women's rights for reproductive choice but also reduce the government's ability to keep sex discrimination in employment illegal.

The Countess:

Of course Alito is not an extremist, activist judge, but only if you ignore...

His position against the Family Leave Act.

His position that anti-gay hate speech is okay in schools.

His [dissent of the court opinion] upholding the legality of a ban on the sale or ownership of machine guns manufactured after 1986.

His position favoring that married women be required to inform their husbands if they wish to get an abortion. As Roxanne asked, would he favor married husbands be required to inform their wives if they intend to get vasectomies? Probably not. Violations of the Constitution are okay only if they affect women and not men. You may read Planned Parenthood of Southeastern PA v. Casey here.

His position favoring race discrimination, in particular his dissenting opinion in a decision in favor of a Marriott Hotel manager who said she had been discriminated agianst based on her race.

His position that it's okay to fire AIDS victims because of "fear of contagion whether reasonable or not."

Hugo Schwyzer:

While conception takes two, and parenting ought to involve an equal commitment from both parties who took part in the earlier conception process, it's hard to argue that men are as involved as women in the period between conception and birth. And where there is an unequal burden, the law does well to honor the wishes of she who, by herself, bears that burden. One would hope that most married women would feel safe enough to share the news of an unexpected pregnancy with their husbands; one would like to think that many women would be eager for their husbands' input. But ultimately, given the radically unequal nature of pregnancy, the law ought to do nothing to interfere with women's sovereignty between conception and delivery.

As I've written before, men do have reproductive choice. We have the choice as to whether or not to have sex, and whether or not to use a reliable form of protection when having sex. Though some MRAs seem to believe that lustful women patrol the land at night like medieval succubae, eager to rob men of their semen, rational folks are aware that very, very few women, if any, are "stealing" the ejaculate of naive and innocent men. If we aren't ready for fatherhood, or aren't willing to countenance our partner's decision to terminate a pregnancy, the time to act is before we have sex. I'll say it again and again and again: when a man ejaculates inside of a woman, he is taking responsibility for all of the consequences that may arise: abortion, fatherhood, eighteen years of child support. If he doesn't like the consequences, he is free to refuse vaginal intercourse with his wife or partner.

Sheelzebub:

Thanks for coming to my press conference, blah-di-di-blah-di-di-blah-blah-blah.

I wanted to let you all know that you are fools, total fools, if you do not support Sam Alito for Supreme Court Justice. This man is a treasure, and, as his mom says, a very nice boy. His rulings and opinions have done nothing but help me in my quest for evil dominion--er, I mean, freedom and justice for all American people.

Amanda:

The progressive movement in this country is about justice and equality. Those are real concepts, something you can wrap your mind around. Equality for women, the end of racism, full access for all, economic justice for workers. In order for justice and equality to happen, members of dominant groups will have to tolerate losing their dominant status. And of course in order for full access to exist, progressives and liberals will have to tolerate their whining about it. But that doesn't mean that we have to tolerate the right wing trying to reverse the gains we've made on the path to justice.

So next group of conservatives that want to whine to me, please get your terminology straight and write, "Why are you so concerned with women's equality? Why don't you just roll over and let us take your rights?" If you can't muster up the enthusiasm to be clear about your meaning, if it makes you ashamed to stand against women's equality, then please reconsider why the hell you're even voting with the right wing.

Thomas (guest-blogging on Feministe):

The administration has talked about “judicial restraint� in a way that renders the term meaningless at best and Orwellian at worst, like the “healthy forest initiative� (which meant, “cutting down more trees�). Alito is no restrained jurist. He is, rather, a hammer-swinging activist who wants to change the way the American legal system works. There are major pillars of the current understanding of the Constitution that he appears to disagree with. He is not shy about throwing the weight of the bench full-force into the acts of legislators and smashing them to bits. Calling it “strict constructionism� isn’t really accurate, but calling it “restraint� is just misleading.

Liza Sabater:

Well, if being the only dissenting judge in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey is not akin to wearing your politics on your judicial sleeves, I don't know what would be. He is already being touted as an extremist and if you read that one dissent alone, you can see there is a HUGE reason for people to keep this guy away from the Supreme Court....

...By the by, Eric Muller says that when Alito became US Attorney in New Jersey, he hired none other than Michael Chertoff to be his top deputy. Let's just say I am a bit creeped out by that bit of information.

It's an omen.

egalia:

"I think [Bush has] done a terrible job as president. I think he's going to be known, perhaps, as being the Millard Fillmore of the last 100 years."

--Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid

Fillmore was the last president of the Whig Party before it died in the 1850s.

I think Harry Reid is on to something. The death of the Republican Party is the best thing that could happen to a party that gets all its ideas from dead white men, and, consequently, runs candidates who promote intolerance and hatred.

Clearly, Republicans do not know how to govern. The nation hasn't been so divided since the Civil War, and it looks like the ongoing cultural war is about to get a whole lot worse, thank you Bush.

One day, the history books will surely say:

Bush was the last president of the Republican Party before it died at around the turn of the century.

Just imagine how much more peaceful and productive our lives would be without the Republican party.

And, as always, Roxanne asks you to write your own caption (to the photo at the other end of this link).

Also watch for BlogPAC's own dedicated site, Scalito.com. It's strictly dry html right now, but they still have some links posted.

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