Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 15, 1933. She married Martin D. Ginsburg in 1954, and has a daughter, Jane, and a son, James. She received her B.A. from Cornell University, attended Harvard Law School, and received her LL.B. from Columbia Law School. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edmund L. Palmieri, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, from 1959–1961. From 1961–1963, she was a research associate and then associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure. She was a Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law from 1963–1972, and Columbia Law School from 1972–1980, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California from 1977–1978. In 1971, she was instrumental in launching the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, and served as the ACLU’s General Counsel from 1973–1980, and on the National Board of Directors from 1974–1980. She was appointed a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980. President Clinton nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat August 10, 1993.

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8/25 Bush Reveals One of the Presidency’s Saddest Things. Also, Politicians Practicing Medicine

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From: poorgeorgesalmanac.com

What is “one of the saddest things” about the Presidency?

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” Abraham Lincoln

2002: What does President Bush consider to be “one of the saddest things” about the presidency? Is it all the lives lost, the tens of thousands who might die as the result of a president’s choices? The health conscious, teetotaler George Bush is quoted in this month’s issue of Runner’s World magazine saying: “It’s sad that I can’t run longer. It’s one of the saddest things about the Presidency”.

Bush Pleased by This Intrusion of Government into Medicine

2004: Vice President Dick Cheney says today, “President Bush and I … stand for a culture of life, and we reject the brutal practice of partial birth abortion”. Come 2007, after naming two new members to the Supreme Court, President Bush and VP Dick Cheney were no doubt pleased when a 2003 federal law banning partial birth abortions was declared legal by the nation’s highest court. Three district courts and three appeals courts had previously ruled that the law was unconstitutional.

It was the first time that a ban was allowed to remain on the books without providing an exception for the mother’s health; the Supreme Court, prior to Bush’s appointees, had always required that the mother’s health be considered in any such law. The one remaining female Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, called the decision “alarming”. Doctors who perform the procedure in order to prevent harm to the mother may now be prosecuted and thrown in jail.

Said Justice Ginsburg, “The court’s opinion tolerates, indeed applauds, federal intervention to ban nationwide a procedure found necessary and proper in certain cases by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists”. The respected New England Journal of Medicine spoke out strongly against the Supreme Court decision. Dr. Jeffrey Drazen, the journal’s editor, wrote, “With this decision the Supreme Court has sanctioned the intrusion of legislation into the day-to-day practice of medicine”.

Dr. Drazen accused the court of “practicing medicine without a license”. Dr. Michael Greene of Massachusetts General Hospital wrote that we “should be alarmed by the current degree of intrusion by our government into the practice of medicine”.

A decision best left to doctors and their patients, based on the specifics and risks of the particular pregnancy, and the values and beliefs of the family involved, has instead been predetermined for all families by a handful of men sitting in a Washington courtroom. President Bush said he was “pleased”.

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