empathy

Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor began yesterday with a sense of predictability and inevitability within the Senate chambers.  Calls by Senators for respectful review of and debate on Sotomayor's candidacy during the hearings, were, however, not heeded by members of the far right in the media, and distortion of her statements continues in the Senate and in the press.

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Pro-reproductive justice philosophy is grounded in empathy -- the idea that we cannot judge another woman's choice unless we've walked a mile in her shoes.