<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1e64d54d-4762-4a8d-9aed-456d773cfe73/6E9886A5-8C3F-447C-AD6D-DDF948155FFE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/150333.php" href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/150333.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.medicalnewstoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/150333.php"><H1>Opposition To Abortion Rights 'Purity Test For Remaining In GOP Inner Circle,' Opinion Piece Says</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/150333.php">People "will not be surprised" by the recent Republican "purge" and "un-eulogies" of several conservative abortion-rights supporters -- including <A target="_new" href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/News2?news_iv_ctrl=-1&abbr=daily2_&page=NewsArticle&id=17015">retiring</A> Supreme Court Justice David Souter, <A target="_new" href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/News2?news_iv_ctrl=-1&abbr=daily2_&page=NewsArticle&id=16959">former</A> Republican Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Penn.) and former Secretary of State Colin Powell -- given that "abortion is the purity test for remaining in the GOP inner circle," syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman writes in a <A target="_new" href="http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/may/14/ellen-goodman-abortion-is-line-drawn-in-sand/">Memphis<CITE> Commercial Appeal</CITE></A> opinion piece. The U.S. is "in for another battle centered, again, on <CITE>Roe v. Wade</CITE>" as President Obama nominates a replacement for Souter, she writes, adding that the "purge has led me to wonder what would have happened if the first abortion case to arrive at the Supreme Court" were <CITE>Struck v. Secretary of Defense</CITE>, rather than <CITE>Roe</CITE>. "What if it had been brought by the woman who did not want an abortion?" Goodman writes, noting that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg ha</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6E9886A5-8C3F-447C-AD6D-DDF948155FFE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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