Saturday, June 5, 2010

Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Supported Partial-Birth Abortion


New documents have been uncovered showing Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan supported partial-birth abortion by defending ex-President Bill Clinton’s veto of a bill to ban partial-birth abortions. Kagan is joined by only 17% of Americans who think partial-birth abortion should be legal. Even half of Americans who think abortion should be legal in all circumstances oppose partial-birth abortion.

Life News reported:
A newly-produced document today from the Clinton archives is the second to show Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan defending ex-President Bill Clinton’s veto of a bill to ban partial-birth abortions. The memo, and others, may increase Republican opposition to her nomination.

In one of the documents that comprises the 46,000 pages of material the William J. Clinton Presidential Library released today, Kagan opined on the ban for Clinton as an attorney with the administration’s Office of Domestic Policy....

Leading pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL made claims that flew in the face of medical practice ...

Fitzsimmons signed on to that mantra but eventually relented, saying he “lied through my teeth” about the statistics...

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