Something needs to be done that will

[shraby]

guarantee for all time the right to an abortion if a woman so chooses. Women shouldn't have to go into a panic mode whenever a Supreme Court judge is changed for another one, the right should be a codified right.
Above all, women should have a right to medical care if an abortion is her decision and nothing should stand between her and a doctor, particularly a male dominated Congress and Supreme Court.

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. I agree

although a male-dominated Congress and Supreme Court doesn't necessarily equate to lesser rights for women. Nothing would make me happier than 50/50 equality in those bodies, but some of our best friends (in terms of reproductive rights ) are male.

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/702950

[shraby]

2. It doesn't necessarily negate those rights, but

the odds are higher of them being negated and women shouldn't have to rely on the whims of Congress or the Supremes. They should be able to be secure in the knowledge they can make reproductive decisions. These are not decisions men have to deal with, therefore they need to be codified for women's security.

I'm not intimating that husbands should have no say, in the case of marriage that decision is usually a consensus between partners, and sometimes the couple's minister. It's a very private decision as it should be.

[Enquiringkitty]

3. Wouldn't a constititional amendment secure a woman's right to choose?

Everybody who thinks that will ever happen, raise your hand and jump up and down on one foot!

[shraby]

4. It would, but it won't happen in my lifetime....

unfortunately. It could possibly be sheltered in "right to medical care" laws.

edited for tpyo

[newswolf56]

5. The connection between abortion rights and other civil rights...

needs to be made much more vividly clear to the electorate especially in the (many) regions where the Fundamentalists have successfully isolated reproductive rights as a singular issue. And Nadine Strossen -- former ACLU president who is a brilliantly articulate advocate not only for abortion rights but all civil rights -- is just the person to undertake such a crusade. It really is all one fight...