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By: Iconigon Originautica

Iconigon Originautica — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:51:19 +0000

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — A new Rasmussen poll finds just 41 percent say they favor adding appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court. The Senate is expected to vote on her confirmation next week — and will likely confirm her — to replace retiring pro-abortion Justice David Souter.

Leading pro-life organizations oppose the Sotomayor nomination because they say she will likely advocate abortion on the high court.

The Rasmussen telephone survey of Americans finds 41 percent believe Sotomayor should be confirmed, while 37 percent oppose her confirmation.

A large contingent of those polled, 21 percent, aren’t sure whether the Senate should confirm the woman who would become the first Hispanic on the high court.

There’s been little change in voters’ views of Sotomayor since the end of her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings nearly two weeks ago. At that time, Rasmussen found 43 percent favored her confirmation and 39 percent were opposed.

On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved President Barack Obama’s first Supreme Court nomination on a 13-6 mostly party-line vote. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a pro-life Republican from South Carolina, joined the panel’s Democrats to back Sotomayor.

The new Rasmussen poll found a largely party-line position on Sotomayor among Americans with 60 percent of Democrats backing her bid and 62 percent of Republicans opposed. Independent voters are evenly split on her confirmation.

Forty-five percent of voters have a favorable opinion of Sotomayor, while 48% view her unfavorably and 51 percent say Sotomayor is a liberal while 29% view her as a moderate. Just four percent of Americans say Sotomayor is conservative in her legal approach and 16 percent are unsure.

Looking at the current Supreme Court, which has, at minimum, a 5-4 composition in favor of unlimited abortions under roe v. Wade, 31 percent of voters say the high court is too liberal while just 20 percent say it is too conservative.

Other polls have also found Americans split on Sotomayor.

A Zogby poll released earlier this week showed, of those voters who say they have learned enough about Sotomayor to make a decision, 49 percent favor her confirmation and 49 percent oppose it.

Even Hispanic voters are roughly split on Sotomayor, as 47 percent favor her confirmation and 43 percent oppose it.

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By: Mohammed Shouman

Mohammed Shouman — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:57:32 +0000

I wonder if this ‘judge’ realizes that he just insulted his own mother.

By: Maryanne

Maryanne — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:06:18 +0000

You have to wonder what the mothers of these deep thinkers would think of this ruling. If it were my son, he’d never stop hearing about what an idiot he is. Were their mothers totally incapable of making any decisions or taking any actions while pregnant? It’s a wonder that they were born…even crossing a street in Cairo is a life or death decision.

By: Edo River

Edo River — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:28:48 +0000

I wish I could laugh or cry…..and perhaps if I were to talk to one of these fellows, they would sound so sincere, as though their first priority could be the welfare of the woman, to protect her from the stress and inconvenience of being a judge. “Just let the men handle these complicated matter, you pretty little thing. Run along and go outside and play, or go into the kitchen and fix us some tea…”

Or another strategy is to blame the mothers for raising such sons. We are products of “your” education. But the women are products of our/male superstitions and virtuous blindness. Now we each feed off the other…

However we can’t deny that each new generation doesn’t have to be chained to the same stones as their parents. Surely we all, as loving parents, want our children to be better, to have more, to be more outstanding, to be able to endure more hardships, to make more noble sacrifices, than we could/did? Isn’t a “new hope” for the future the seductive attraction of the old for the young? So what are those “new hopes”? Now I want to weep inside my self. It seems depressingly sad.

Our daughters, here, continue to float in the middle class consumer dream that is Japanese society, to hurt not, to want not, to struggle not, to truly live not.