Posted on 10/10/2005 9:17:03 AM PDT by SmartCitizen
Stephen G. Peroutka, chairman of the board of governors for the National Pro-Life Action Center (NPLAC), issued the following response to President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor:
“Pro-life and pro-family conservatives supported President Bush’s campaign because he promised to appoint judges in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. With 45 million children’s lives lost to abortion, the on-going threat to the definition of marriage, and the continuing attack on the family itself, the stakes are too high to gamble on another ‘stealth’ candidate.
“While Ms. Miers may be satisfactory to President Bush, there is nothing in her record that should satisfy pro-lifers. It is incumbent upon President Bush to provide irrefutable proof that his nominee is, in fact, Scalia- or Thomas-like, and that he has not reneged on his campaign promise.
“Sadly, if the administration continues its attempts to hide their nominees behind the ‘Ginsberg cloak of silence,’ Ms. Miers will not be given the chance to establish whether she fully adheres to an American understanding of law and justice as defined by our Constitution. We believe at the very least, that Ms. Miers should answer the five basic questions that NPLAC submitted to the Senate during Roberts’ nomination.
“During those hearings, Judge Roberts stated that overturning stare decisis might ‘jolt’ the Court. It appears, instead, that the president is content to jilt those who put him in office. The time has come for pro-life and pro-family groups to hold this administration to a higher standard, instead of assuming a ‘cheerleader’ position that keeps their backs to the action.
“Abortion will not end in this country until we are unashamedly pro-life. Avoiding the subject-though considered strategic, coy and even intelligent by many-is not consistent with the expectations of those who elected Bush, the beliefs of our Founding Fathers or our obligation to God.”
NPLAC’s Five Questions are:
Do basic human rights come only from government or are they rooted in something that transcends government?
Is man’s inherent human nature fixed or does raw political power determine who is and is not a member of the human family?
Is law merely the construct of jurists and lawmakers or is it based on first principles of morals and justice?
Is the proper role of the judiciary to restrain/limit itself to interpreting law or does it possess de facto legislative powers?
Should the judiciary share power equally with the other two branches of government (the legislative and executive) or should its powers transcend them?
Geez. What makes anyone on the Right think Miers is pro-choice? You'd think W nominated Hillary for the SCOTUS! Take a breath. Or a pill.
one can only hope.....
The time has come for pro-life and pro-family groups to hold this administration to a higher standard, instead of assuming a ‘cheerleader’ position that keeps their backs to the action.
And I voted Constitution Party.
The only evidence we have is that she once said she was pro-life in an interview, and she argued that the ABA board should not go on record as supporting abortion until it had polled the membership. We also have the inferential evidence that she belongs to an Evangelical Church.
That's not enough to be certain by any means. What we need, at a minimum, is someone willing to overturn Roe v. Wade. That was tried, once, and instead we got the Casey decision, which contains some of the most rebarbative language ever issued by SCOTUS.
For all we know, maybe she's "personally opposed, but."
So, what did you gain by that vote?
Souter in drag
I don't vote to "gain" anything. I vote according to biblical and constitutional principles - in that order. Voting to gain something or for some future result or to avoid a future result - is called pragmatism. Pragmatism is not a Christian methodology.
Well I vote to gain something. I want to get the person elected who most represents the actions I want taken.
Hey, you could just vote for yourself and feel really good.
It's not about feeling good. There are real practical consequences for not voting to preserve our moral principles. If there is a transcendant moral authority over our nation -- which our founders clearly believed in, to whom our founders attributed unalienable rights such as the right to life -- then we will surely GAIN by honoring the moral laws of that lawgiver, but we will surely LOSE and will not survive as a Republic if we don't.
I don't know what "GAIN" you voted for, but there is no greater good or gain than to honor the God who established this Repbulic.
Dignity and self-respect, both of which I lost some of by letting down my guard and voting for a back-stabbing liar.
What does it matter if she is pro choice or pro life? We don't want an activist judge. We want an originalist.
Those fixated on overturning Roe really miss the big picture. I don't think any jurisdiction in the USA would outlaw 1st trimester abortions outright, after Roe is overturned. Overturning Roe doesn't make abortion illegal.
Those fixated on the supreme court declaring abortion itself is unconstitutional and illegal just want their own brand of activist. Why not consider sending a donation to the Taliban - that's more their speed.
Gosh is ol' Stephen Peroutka a brother or something to that 3rd party candidate for President Michael Pereoutka who abandoned his step children to the State of Maryland. Tlak about family values
The lesser of two evils is...Evil.
Read the thread....I didn't vote Republican, so they can thank me for nothing.
Second, being from Texas as you are (I live in Texas also), you should no better than to support a big more-power-to-the-central government party such as the GOP has become lately. Did you learn nothing from Texas' history in the Civil War?
Comparing pro-Life/anti-murder Christians to the Taliban is a belief and tactic of the fanatical left.
Whatever you are, you care nothing for the Constitution.
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