Posted on 06/30/2010 12:39:57 PM PDT by jeffq73
“We are deeply concerned about Elena Kagan’s conflicting testimony today before the Senate Judiciary Committee,” said Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President and CEO of Americans United for Life. “There are serious discrepancies between her statements to Senator Hatch and the documented evidence of her actions in December 1996.”
WHAT WE KNOW
During Elena Kagan’s service in the Clinton White House, she urged the President to oppose any meaningful restrictions on partial-birth abortion. As part of this effort, our attorneys have learned that Kagan worked to change the positions of two major medical groups – the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American Medical Association (AMA).
Kagan’s response to questions from Senator Orrin Hatch earlier this afternoon that she was simply trying to ensure that ACOG’s full view on partial-birth abortion was made public raises serious discrepancies when contrasted with the timing of her December 1996 amendment, which ACOG adopted in their January 1997 policy statement on partial-birth abortion.
ACOG’s statement initially gave no indication that they thought partial-birth abortion “may be the best or the most appropriate procedure…to save the life or preserve the health of the woman.” However, after Kagan advocated for the above language, ACOG added her view to their final statement.
WHAT KAGAN TOLD THE AMA
Kagan’s lobbying for changes to medical associations’ positions while in the White House is further evidenced by an email found in her White House documents, where Kagan clearly tried to change the position of another medical group, the American Medical Association (AMA):
When discussing whether the AMA could reverse its policy that there is not an identified situation in which partial-birth abortion is the only appropriate method of abortion, ethical concerns surround it, and that it should not be used unless it is absolutely necessary, Kagan stated: “We agreed to do a bit of thinking about whether we (in truth, HHS) could contribute to that effort [convincing the AMA to reverse their policy]. Chuck and I are meeting with the AG on Tuesday; Donna offered to send over some doctors this week (though we don’t know who or when) to give a medical briefing.”
In other words, Kagan was so opposed to the passage of a ban on partial-birth abortion, she hoped that ACOG and the AMA would suppress or modify their views and aggressively worked to make that happen.
Senators need to ask Kagan why she thought it was appropriate to interfere in the positions of medical organizations. Further, does the lack of any evidence of harm to a woman’s health because of the unavailability of partial-birth abortion for the past three years affect her perspective on the issue? Does Kagan still believe that partial-birth abortion is necessary to protect a woman’s health? If so, what is her factual basis to support this?
The Supreme Court nominations are a place where Republican candidates are grilled on their views on abortion and democrat candidates are never asked about abortion because everyone knows that a democrat president would never incur the wrath of the militant feminazis.
OK so b4 she was a slobby dyke commie, but now she’s a FRAUDULENT slobby dyke commie...?
FILIBUSTER..!!
Challenge:
“Please cite a situation in which stopping the birth contraction long enough to kill the baby and then completing the delivery, is safer for the mother than simply not interfering with the live delivery.”
She’ll come out the MINUTE she is confirmed. BET on it!
ONLY a dozen??I think you under-estimate the GOP's lack of a spine.
WTH ! ! ! ?
Too late for Lindsay “Lapdog” Graham...he of “elections have consequences” fame...he’s already kissing her butt, and will vote for her. Shame as hell on the great state SC for re-electing this wolf in sheep’s clothing...in other words...a RINO!
Too late for Lindsay “Lapdog” Graham...he of “elections have consequences” fame...he’s already kissing her butt, and will vote for her. Shame as hell on the great state SC for re-electing this wolf in sheep’s clothing...in other words...a RINO!
these weak kneed Republicrats better check their hold card. We are watching.
She failed miserably. She is vapid and vacant of experience. I want to know her sex life!! We had to hear about Clarence Thomas and his entire sex life!!I want to know if she is just too ugly to attract a man or a sexual degenerate who loves women!!
I was wondering if this was a crime.
At the very least it certainly is dishonest and reveals a total lack of character and disregard for decency.
And that’s besides the obvious point that she is AOK with knifing babies in the neck but finds an honest and medically accurate statement from obstetricians to be “disasterous”
what books has she borrowed from the library?
What movies are on her netflix queue?
yup - the procedure was not developed by real doctors, but by bottom-of-the barrel losers who couldn’t hack real medicine so they went into the baby killing business.
Surviving babies complicate things. As Obama has pointed out - it can be a real burden trying to figure out what to do with a living baby after you’ve tried so hard to kill it.
These folks needed a surefire way to make sure those babies were absolutely positively definitely dead before they fully emerged.
Sen. Orrin Hatch is a middle of the road rhino that tends to lean to the left often and wonders why everyone just don’t try to get along. She will get his vote...#@$%^&*()
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