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Follow the Money: Is NARAL's attack on John Roberts about abortion rights or abortion profits?
Opinion Journal ^ | 8/10/05 | Manuel Miranda

Posted on 08/10/2005 9:08:10 AM PDT by Crackingham

From the indignation of his defenders, it seems the Battle of John Roberts might have begun in earnest this week. On Monday, NARAL Pro-Choice America launched a major ad campaign that aims to scare a small portion of America, then raise more money to scare the rest. NARAL will spend $500,000 to frighten cable news watchers and the people of Maine and Rhode Island, home to three liberal Republican senators. The 30-second ad is titled "Speaking Out." Here's the script:

Announcer: Seven years ago, a bomb destroyed a woman's health clinic in Birmingham, Ala.

Emily Lyons: When a bomb ripped through my clinic, I almost lost my life. I will never be the same.

Announcer: Supreme Court nominee John Roberts filed court briefs supporting violent fringe groups and a convicted clinic bomber.

Lyons: I'm determined to stop this violence, so I'm speaking out.

Announcer: Call your senators. Tell them to oppose John Roberts. America can't afford a justice whose ideology leads him to excuse violence against other Americans.

The ladies who gave Plato's "noble lie" new uses in the hearings of Clarence Thomas are at it again. NARAL is using the image of the abortion clinic bombing by Eric Rudolph to suggest that Judge Roberts would excuse such violence--even though NARAL's leaders have admitted to the press that Judge Roberts has condemned clinic violence. Indeed, the Washington Post reported last week that in 1986, when he was an assistant in the White House counsel's office, Mr. Roberts wrote a memo recommending against a presidential pardon for abortion-clinic bombers. "No matter how lofty or sincerely held the goal, those who resort to violence to achieve it are criminals," Roberts wrote.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: ads; johnroberts; mannymiranda; naral; scotus
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To: Nevernow

Sorry, should be "publik skool ejucashun"


21 posted on 08/10/2005 7:09:45 PM PDT by Lexinom
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To: Lexinom

whered u lern too spell it wasnt public skool we got betr skillz


22 posted on 08/10/2005 7:23:45 PM PDT by Nevernow ("No one has the right to choose to do what is wrong." Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Nevernow

M R Snakes
M R not
S A R. C M E D B D I's?
O, M R Snakes!


23 posted on 08/10/2005 8:22:19 PM PDT by Lexinom
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To: Nevernow
You know, bout five years ago, our family was disturbingly, but gladly, informed about China and their enforcing legalized Abortion to control the Population of their country.

Not only have the been encouraging it for years so as to have a surplus of fetus for medical/cosmetic research, they also either in China or Japan will eat it very young fetus as a delicacy.

There is a lotion company, that is marketed in the Drug Stores of the USA for the last 10+ years, that uses a form of collagen that most likely originates from young aborted babies. Swiss something

Cold war my #@$! It's more like a cry shame!

24 posted on 08/11/2005 9:40:50 AM PDT by CourtneyLeigh (Why can't all of America be Commonwealth?)
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To: Lexinom

Thanks for the ping.. i put my two cents worth in! :o)


25 posted on 08/11/2005 9:42:11 AM PDT by CourtneyLeigh (Why can't all of America be Commonwealth?)
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To: CourtneyLeigh

That's in China. Japanese are too civilized, even though abortion is legal there too. The Japanese women even mourn at shrines after an abortion.


26 posted on 08/11/2005 12:03:40 PM PDT by Lexinom
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