CNN - The Situation Room and Lou Dobbs Tonight - 2005-09-13
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[0:00] and denies them full autonomy and full
[0:03] equality with men. That was the idea
[0:07] in the lecture to which you referred the
[0:10] two strands equality and autonomy both
[0:13] figure in the full portrayal. Do you
[0:17] agree or disagree?
[0:18] >> Well, I think judge judge then judge
[0:21] Ginsburgg felt at greater liberty to
[0:23] discuss that precisely for the reason
[0:25] you noted that she had given a lecture
[0:28] uh on on the subject. Um those are
[0:31] issues that come up again and again
[0:33] before the court and uh consistent with
[0:36] what I understand the approach to have
[0:38] been of other nominees. Um I don't think
[0:40] I should express a view on that.
[0:42] >> I'd like to move on. Um in Bray you
[0:45] argued on behalf of the governor
[0:47] government as deputy solicitor general
[0:50] that the right to have an abortion is
[0:52] not specific to one gender.
[0:54] Specifically, your brief stated, quote,
[0:57] "Unlike the condition of being pregnant,
[0:59] the right to have an abortion is not a
[1:01] fact that is specific to one gender."
[1:04] End quote. In your oral argument, you
[1:07] went on to make this point by comparing
[1:09] Operation Rescue's attempts to prevent a
[1:12] woman from exercising her privacy right
[1:15] to make decisions about her pregnancy to
[1:18] an ecologist's efforts to block an
[1:20] Indian tribe from using their exclusive
[1:23] fishing rights. Do you think that's an
[1:25] appropriate analogy?
[1:28] Well, Senator, it was an a position and
[1:30] an argument that the administration made
[1:32] that was accepted by the Supreme Court
[1:34] by a vote of 6 to3. The point underlying
[1:37] point was that under the statute at
[1:39] issue in Bray, the Ku Klux Clan Act, uh
[1:42] the