Roundup: Ferraro Says Too Late to Worry About Supreme Court

Ferraro on women coming out for Obama, Pope on contraception, Lack of condom use in Britain.

Too Late To Worry About Supreme Court Geraldine Ferraro appeared on Fox News again (video) last week talking about the state of the Democratic primary post-North Carolina and Indiana. Toward the end of the clip (0:44 left) the interviewer asks Ferraro one of the hot questions in Democratic circles right now: "In order for your scenario to play out (Hillary Clinton) will have to have all these superdelegates cross over and support her. If I’m an Obama supporter what is my incentive to vote in November, if you get your wish?" Ferraro replies:

I had a state senator, who is one of Obama’s friends from Illinois, say to me the other day, ‘If indeed Hillary is the candidate, Obama’s supporters, the blacks and the young kids, are gonna stay home. But with women, women will go out and vote for Obama because they are worried about the Supreme Court and choice.’

I pointed out to him that there are some things all of us old folks, Catholics, the ethnics, all of us, are worried about other things besides the Supreme Court.

I talked about the Supreme Court in 1980 and in 1984 and people’s eyes glazed over. It’s a little too late to worry about that now. The voters that she has are going to stick with her all the way through.

Northern Ireland United Against Choice The four main party leaders in Norther Ireland have written to Westminster members of parliment to state their opposition to plans to extend the 1967 Abortion Act. It is the first time all four parties have taken a united stand on a major issue.

Who’s Catholic Enough? Right Wing Watch writes about the right’s continuing efforts to drive a wedge between liberal politicians and religion with the issue of choice, specifically by picking at the Pope for giving communion to pro-choice politicians.

Pope Reaffirms Prohibition of Contraception This morning the Pope stressed again that the Catholic church’s 40-year prohibition of contraception use is still a "truth."

Condom Class The National AIDS Trust, a UK based non-profit organization, released a study today that found 49% of British people do not use a condom with a new sexual partner. NAT wants to air commercials about safe sex and condom use on primetime television and also wants condom use to become "an essential part of comprehensive, compulsory sex and relationships education in all schools."