Anti-Choice – As Byron York in particular and the media in general pointed out, the Democratic majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee has once again on a 10-9 party line vote defeated a Bush judicial nominee, Priscilla Owen.
Democrats objected primarily to her vote on the Texas Supreme Court in favor of enforcing Texas’s parental notification (not permission, just notification) requirement for teenagers seeking an abortion. California Democrat Diane Feinstein said that this was her “most difficult vote,” but “the issue of choice…is extraordinarily important.”
Not really. Or rather, only some choices are important to Senator Feinstein. Feinstein and her like-minded fellows also refused to send the nomination out of committee with no recommendation or even with a negative recommendation because it is clear that Owen would have had the support of enough Democrats to win approval if her nomination had been allowed to reach the Senate floor. But Feinstein et. al. obviously have little regard for “the issue of choice” of a majority of her Senate colleagues or their constitutents who sent them there. Her choice is important, not theirs.
