Can a senator ask Alito: "Would you be upset if a close family member

[Maraya1969]

wanted to have an abortion?"

EDIT: to clarify I'm watching the Alito questioning now.

[Warpy]

1. Can who ask? Under what circumstances?

And why the HELL would it be the business of anyone but the woman who felt her life at risk from an unwanted pregnancy?

[Maraya1969]

2. Sorry - I am watching the Alito hearing and he is being pressured

to answer his opinion on Roe. v Wade

[catmother]

3. did they ask that question?

[Maraya1969]

5. NO but no one can ever get a clear answer as to whether the person

is pro-life or pro-choice. I see all sorts of interesting ways that they have come up with questions that will make Alito ANSWER and yet he still have wiggled out of them and not answered it.

[catmother]

9. i'm sure they had him practice answers before the hearings. they

knew that this would come up.

from what i've heard when ruth bader ginsberg was nominated she refused to answer questions. but with her everyone knew where she stood and how she would vote. so now they all think they can pull that shit.

[yy4me]

8. Why is it anyone else's business what the woman decides---for

any reason whatsoever. No man should be able to make a law that states what a woman can do with her reproductive rights. No-one makes a woman have an abortion, she chooses to or not. This issue should be about personal rights and not at all about politics. Just my opinion.

[Maraya1969]

12. I agree 100% The problem is if we end up with one more far right Supreme

court justice abortion may become ILLEGAL. Opinions aren't going to matter then. It would be a horror story.

[AlCzervik]

4. i bet they could ask but i think the chairman would object and even if he

didn't i think the nominee could decline to answer.

[Maraya1969]

6. Can they just come out and ask; "Do you consider yourself pro-life

or pro-choice?

[AlCzervik]

7. i think the same applies, yeah they could ask, they used to i think but

again the chairman would put a stop to it or he could decline to answer with something like "I will follow the law of the land"

[knight_of_the_star]

10. Well he just did

What a softball question, but no real surprise.

[trof]

11. Missed it. What was his answer?

[Maraya1969]

13. He did a two step around it just like the others

[elsiesummers]

14. It's men making and judging these abortion laws - is this apartheid?

Seriously, the laws and the judgements are made by men. These men are not bound by these laws (because they cannot be pregnant) and the laws are in fact pertaining to a group, a class, that they are not a member of.

Let's face it, this is apartheid - that men make laws about a group, a seaparate group, that they make laws that don't apply to themselves, it is no better than slavery. It is the American caste system.

We women are still completely controlled and dominated by men. Look at how men are actually ruling women, and also look at the Martha Stewart conviction - the message of it - that women who overstep will be taken down.

Women really have no rights, and it is time we face up to who we are in this society. We are nothing, unless men choose to allow us some sort of status that they can take away.