[Apologetics] Sotomayor calls abortion rights 'settled law'

[Art Kelly]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090714/ap_on_go_su_co/us_sotomayor_abortion

Sotomayor calls abortion rights 'settled law'

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WASHINGTON - Supreme Court aspirant Sonia Sotomayor said Tuesday that
she considers the question of abortion rights "settled law" and says
there is a constitutional right to privacy.

The federal appeals court judge was asked at her confirmation hearing
Tuesday to state how she felt about the landmark Roe versus Wade ruling
legalizing abortion in 1973.

Sotomayor told the Senate Judiciary Committee that "there is a right of
privacy. The court has found it in various places in the Constitution."
She said this right is stated in the Fourth Amendment protection against
unreasonable search and seizure and in the 14th Amendment guaranteeing
equal protection of the law. She declined to say pointblank if she
agreed with the high court's precedent on this volatile issue.

Answering a question later from Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Sotomayor said
that "all precedents of the Supreme Court I consider settled law,"
subject to the possibility of subsequent reversal, such as when the
court last month renounced a previous precedent in a reverse
discrimination case. It ruled 5-4 on the side of white firefighters from
New Haven, Conn., who challenged a decision by the city to discard the
results of an employee test in which they fared better than minorities
who took the examination.




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