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Wife of nominee holds strong anti-abortion views.
LA Times ^ | July 21, 2005 | Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writer

Posted on 07/23/2005 10:34:16 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes

Wife of Nominee Holds Strong Antiabortion Views By Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — While Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s views on abortion triggered intense debate on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, there is no mistaking where his wife stands: Jane Sullivan Roberts, a lawyer, is ardently against abortion.

A Roman Catholic like her husband, Jane Roberts has been deeply involved in the antiabortion movement. She provides her name, money and professional advice to a small Washington organization — Feminists for Life of America — that offers counseling and educational programs. The group has filed legal briefs before the high court challenging the constitutionality of abortion.

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A spouse's views normally are not considered relevant in weighing someone's job suitability. But abortion is likely to figure prominently in the Senate debate over John Roberts' nomination. And with his position on the issue unclear, abortion rights supporters expressed concern Wednesday that his wife's views might suggest he also embraced efforts to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

"It's unclear how all this will affect her husband," said Jennifer Palmieri, a spokeswoman with the Center for American Progress, a liberal public policy group. "It's possible that he would have a different view than her. It's just that in the absence of information about this guy, people are looking at her and trying to read the tea leaves."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: feministsforlife; janeroberts; johnroberts; scotus
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Maybe we've got a winner.
1 posted on 07/23/2005 10:34:16 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes
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To: Past Your Eyes
Leave it to the Libs...Can't find something on the Judge just go afther the family...


2 posted on 07/23/2005 10:36:20 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Was she nominated too?


3 posted on 07/23/2005 10:37:26 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Past Your Eyes

Wake me up when they tell us the judges dog's position on neutering.


4 posted on 07/23/2005 10:40:20 AM PDT by digger48
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To: digger48

Good for her because I think killing a baby in the womb is no different than killing a 3 year old.


5 posted on 07/23/2005 10:42:24 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

You and I are on the same wave length. There is no more important issue to me when I am deciding how to cast my vote.


6 posted on 07/23/2005 10:46:10 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (I don't care if it rains or freezes)
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To: darkwing104

What's Mr. Bader-Ginsburg's position on this?


7 posted on 07/23/2005 10:46:28 AM PDT by Commander Salamander (finally found a tagline!)
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To: Past Your Eyes
Wife of nominee holds strong anti-abortion views.

As all mothers and wives should.

8 posted on 07/23/2005 10:47:24 AM PDT by No Blue States
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To: No Blue States
Not just all mothers and wives, everybody should. I long for the day when abortion is thought of in the same way as child labor and slavery. Or at least as smoking and chewing tobacco...activities far less deadly than abortion.
9 posted on 07/23/2005 10:56:05 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (I don't care if it rains or freezes)
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To: Commander Salamander
"What's Mr. Bader-Ginsburg's position on this?"---Or Mrs. Souter's? Oh, wait a minute. There isn't any Mrs. Souter. At least not since David's mother passed away. Hmmmm. (Posted by an ashamed fellow citizen of the great Granite State of New Hampshire. Sorry. If only we had known then what we know now.)
10 posted on 07/23/2005 11:02:40 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (I don't care if it rains or freezes)
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To: Past Your Eyes

I take back my post. At first I was thinking what she believes shouldn't make a difference but it does. If she was a pro abortion supporter I would have concerns. I guess it just depends if you stand for choose life or death.


11 posted on 07/23/2005 11:10:33 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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A spouse's views normally are not considered relevant in weighing someone's job suitability. But . . . .

But me no buts, LA Times. You too, Chuckie and Teddie. Lay off.

12 posted on 07/23/2005 11:13:06 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: CindyDawg
"I take back my post." ---Not sure why you think you have to take it back. It's a legitimate question.
13 posted on 07/23/2005 11:15:21 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (I don't care if it rains or freezes)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Well, because when I posted it I was thinking she wasn't being nominated so it wasn't anyones business. If you reversed her position though I would feel differently. We have been burned by CINO being chosen before and I would be concerned on what values they shared.


14 posted on 07/23/2005 11:21:18 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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Yes, we certainly have been burned by CINOs. The most egregious example of that is Mister (in)Justice Souter from my home state. Sorry. We trusted Senator Warren Wonderful Rudman. Never should have. Can't take it back now. Too bad.


15 posted on 07/23/2005 11:24:59 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (I don't care if it rains or freezes)
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To: CindyDawg
Was she nominated too?

No, but there might be another opening soon

16 posted on 07/23/2005 11:27:29 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Always Right

Very true. If it happens soon, it'll be William Rehnquest. Look for Michael Luttig to succeed him.


17 posted on 07/23/2005 11:44:43 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Mike DeWine for retirement, John Kasich for Senate)
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To: Past Your Eyes

"Wife of nominee holds strong anti-abortion views."

Democrats demand Robert's divorce prior to confirmation.


18 posted on 07/23/2005 11:51:21 AM PDT by BadAndy (Specializing in unnecessarily harsh comments.)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Sounds like Little Dick the LaLaTimes Staff writer guy thinks that Roberts' wife should have the same opinions about things that her husband has. What a male chauvinist pig.


19 posted on 07/23/2005 12:21:22 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
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To: Commander Salamander

"What's Mr. Bader-Ginsburg's position on this?"

Errrr....you mean 'The Weasel boy....Souter' Buzzy's other flame.


20 posted on 07/24/2005 10:32:59 AM PDT by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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