AUL on the Elena Kagan Abortion File

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has a radical pro-abortion record.

“Pro-choice” liberals are a bunch of phonies with all their puffed-up talk about “justice” and “compassion” and looking out for the little guy. What we have with Elena Kagan is a just another hypocritical liberal who can’t see the justice of coming to the aid of the most defenseless, at-risk Americans among us: unborn children. Little guys (and gals), indeed. This is a human rights issue. Click on the Americans United for Life link below for their “Kagan File” on abortion. Below that is an AUL excerpt analyzing Kagan’s actions on Partial-Birth Abortion legislation. — Peter LaBarbera, www.aftah.org

“The Kagan File”

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…First, Kagan thought the President was “too lenient” on what he would accept in a partial-birth abortion ban, even though the ban he was willing to accept would not necessarily prevent any woman from having an abortion.

She also argues that “the [pro-abortion] groups will go crazy” if Clinton does not do what they want… In other words, she did not want to disappoint the pro-abortion groups.  Instead, she recommends that the President’s ban have an even broader “health” exception, which would have the effect of limiting even fewer abortions.

Second, Kagan was undeterred in her opposition to meaningful limitations on partial-birth abortion even after discovering that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) could not find a legitimate need for it. She opposed the release of a truthful proposed statement by ACOG that partial-birth abortion is never medically necessary, stating that “the release of the statement, of course, would be [a] disaster — not the less so (in fact, the more so) because ACOG continues to oppose the legislation.”…

— AUL’s Kagan File: The “Week Six” Memo