Fr. Pavone: Abortion advocates do not belong on Supreme Court
After President Obama nominated current Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday, Fr. Frank Pavone criticized the nominee, saying that anyone who fails to protect human life “does not belong in any public office, much less the U.S. Supreme Court.”
Fr. Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, explained on Monday that “Supreme Court Justices are not supposed to shape public policy, and their nomination and confirmation should be based on their qualifications, not their views on specific issues.”
He added, however, that “there are certain issues so central to the very nature and purpose of government that one's position on those issues is tantamount to a qualification for the job.”
According to some pro-life groups, the 50-year-old Kagan has a history of abortion advocacy.
Though she has never served as a judge and therefore has no judicial record, the former dean of Harvard Law School has reportedly had strong ties to pro-abortion groups. America United for Life president Dr. Charmaine Yoest said on Monday that Kagan “has been an abortion advocate and activist and an apologist for activist judges.”
The nominee's “confirmation will give us the kind of activist, radical Supreme Court that gave us the Roe decision,” Yoest added. “The President's portrayal of Solicitor-General Kagan as mainstream and centrist is inconsistent with Kagan's own record.”