Posted on 08/11/2005 6:20:46 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Abortion Rights Group Withdraws Roberts Ad
By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer 6 minutes ago
After a week of protests by conservatives, an abortion rights group said Thursday night it is withdrawing a television advertisement linking Supreme Court nominee John Roberts to violent anti-abortion activists.
"We regret that many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts' record," said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
"Unfortunately, the debate over that advertisement has become a distraction from the serious discussion we hoped to have with the American public," she said in a letter Thursday to Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., who had urged the group to withdraw the ad.
Specter, himself an abortion-rights supporter as well as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will question Roberts next month, earlier Thursday had called the ad "blatantly untrue and unfair."
The NARAL ad criticizes Roberts and links him with violent anti-abortion protesters because of the anti-abortion briefs he worked on as a government lawyer.
"The NARAL advertisement is not helpful to the pro-choice cause which I support," Specter said in a letter to Keenan.
Keenan's response said the group will replace the ad with one that "examines Mr. Roberts' record on several points, including his advocacy for overturning Roe v. Wade, his statement questioning the right to privacy and his arguments against using a federal civil rights law to protect women and their doctors and nurses from those who use blockades and intimidation."
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Pure comedy. LOL!
They're down, but not out.
They got caught lying--oh, so sad!
And still they don't apologize.
"Sorry if you 'misconstrued' it..."
I used to apologize to my little brother like that - "I'm sorry you're such an idiot."
I believe they've just opened themselves further to a libel or slander suit?
Misconstrued? What utter fools. Damned Utopians are absolutely bereft of moral values or even a smattering of intelligence.
I will be so happy when Spectator retires.
We misconstrued it? What did they mean to say, I wonder?
Now how can you determine it's misleading at best if it's false? If there's truth to what it says, it's not false, but there wasn't. They twisted what he REALLY did, deliberately, to make him look bad.
Getting desperate are they?
YEEEHHHHHAAAAAAAWWWWW!!!
Chalk one up for the good guys
THHHHHRRRRPPPPPP!! NARAL, you vile bunch of baby killers!!
Not sorry for the ad, only that it was "misconstrued". Typical
I agree. I am sick of these 'I apologize for your ignorance' apologies. They lied. They should apologize for lying, for slandering a man's reputation, for attempting to mislead the people to prevent a well-qualified judge from being appointed to the Supreme Court, for undermining the Constitutional Process, and for being pro-abortion.
Nothing to misconstrue.
I'm going to miss the ad.
I thought it was a great window for the average person to see whacky leftists. The Ad was far more damaging to the democrats than it was to Roberts.
"They're down, but not out."
Right, It's not over 'till it's over.
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