Attack on Women's Rights Week
Ya know, if a person loved a good conspiracy theory, one might start thinking something was up following the Alito nomination. First comes the Supreme Court decision to end the injunction against abortion protestors harrassing women outside clinics providing abortions and ruling that federal racketeering and extortion laws couldn't be used to ban the demonstrators.

Then there is the spate of state legislation written or in the works to limit or eliminate abortions in South Dakota, Georgia, Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Tennessee. Oh, wait, I'm not imagining a conspiracy. There most certainly is one --the intent all along was to overturn Roe v. Wade, and the pro-lifers are racing with glee to get to their new Bushie Supreme Court to give it a whirl. Some of these new laws provide no exception for pregnancies caused by rape or incest. Let me spell this out clearly. The states have decided to force women to become receptacles. Roll back the clock.

Oh yes, lets not forget the Illinois judge that threatened a 20 year old woman with jail if she continued to refuse to watch a video of her own alleged gang rape at age 16. He relented eventually, but Judge Kennedy still says he may show the video in open court after her testimony. Ah yes, let's drag the victim through the mud just for fun. This video could be seen by just the judge and jury, the consenting parties and their attorneys, but no, let's traumatize the victim all over again by showing it to anyone who walks through the courtroom door.
http://khon.com/khon/display.cfm?storyID=11691&sectionID=1150

Wounded Boy's Mother Relates Past Threats to Kill Children If She Left
A Minnesota fugitive pulled a gun on law enforcement officers who had blocked in his car as he waited at a Homer, Alaska airport parking lot. Within the car were his 6 month old and 2 year old children. Shots were exchanged and the 2 year old was critically injured. State child protection services have taken custody of the two children. The children's mother indicated they told her she was an unfit mother for "abandoning" her children to a dangerous man. This man was the father of the children, and according to the mother had repeatedly kept the children from her, and on the several occasions where she tried to escape his violence, he would threaten to kill them if she didn't return.

It remains to be seen if state child protection workers will take heed of the Nicholson
v. Scoppeta federal class action lawsuit brought by a group of battered women in New York for the same sort of attitudes and treatment. Federal Judge Weinstein found that New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services had been violating the constitutional rights of mothers and their children by removing children from their homes simply because their mothers are victims of domestic violence. The women prevailed.

http://www.adn.com/front/story/7496264p-7406799c.html
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7493514p-7403615c.html