Another Judge Who Isn't Intellectually Viable
James Leon Holmes - appointed by Bush as a judge for the Arkansas Eastern District in July 2004 - once compared the pro-choice movement to Nazi propaganda, likened the issue of abortion to slavery, wrote that "a wife is to subordinate herself to her husband," and argued that all abortions should be banned because "conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami." Meanwhile, studies from 2000 and 2004 show that 25,000 to 32,000 pregnancies a year result from rape in the U.S.
-From my Bad President calendar, July 13, 2008, 191 days left.
As a woman, I cannot tell you how much viewpoints like this trouble me, especially when they are in our government. It's just another example of how our own government, like other governments and religous groups, treats women with dignity and respect.
