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Judge John G. Roberts has left little hard evidence of his views on abortion in recent years and is widely expected to try to avoid the issue in his coming confirmation hearings. But there is little mystery about the views of his wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, a Roman Catholic lawyer from the Bronx whose pro bono work for Feminists for Life is drawing intense interest in the ideologically charged environment of a Supreme Court confirmation debate.

John Roberts' Wife Involved With Pro-Life Women's Group Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Supreme Court nominee John Roberts appears to be pro-life in his views about the issue of abortion, but the philosophy his wife has on the topic is crystal clear. Attorney Jane Sullivan Roberts has been associated with the pro-life group Feminists for Life of America for more than a decade. Mrs. Roberts, an attorney at the high-powered Washington law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, currently serves as the pro bono legal counsel for the organization, which focuses on how abortion is a disservice to women. From 1995...

In 1998, two teenage girls -- one pregnant, one a new mother -- sued a Kentucky school district because officials there, hoping to send teens a message about unwed motherhood, denied them admission to the National Honor Society. In an affidavit filed in the case, Serrin M. Foster, president of the group Feminists for Life, argued that the school district's policy would ''encourage students to hide their pregnancies and not seek prenatal care... and instead obtain an abortion, or, worst of all, commit neonatal infanticide." Foster's affidavit was written by a technology attorney named Jane Sullivan Roberts, the wife of...

I can’t help but recall not long ago the president having to answer questions about whether he had a “litmus test” for appointees to the Supreme Court. He was asked specifically whether a candidate’s view on abortion would determine his or her qualification. The message was clear: Mr. President, you better not make this about abortion. The president followed through on his word. He appointed an accomplished judge who is a man of integrity. He chose a man hailed on both sides of the aisle. Even former Al Gore Campaign attorney, David Boies, had only complimentary things to say about...

WASHINGTON — While Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s views on abortion triggered intense debate on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, there is no mistaking where his wife stands: Jane Sullivan Roberts, a lawyer, is ardently against abortion. A Roman Catholic like her husband, Jane Roberts has been deeply involved in the antiabortion movement. She provides her name, money and professional advice to a small Washington organization — Feminists for Life of America — that offers counseling and educational programs. The group has filed legal briefs before the high court challenging the constitutionality of abortion. A spouse's views normally are...

A Roman Catholic like her husband, Jane Roberts has been deeply involved in the antiabortion movement. She provides her name, money and professional advice to a small Washington organization — Feminists for Life of America — that offers counseling and educational programs. The group has filed legal briefs before the high court challenging the constitutionality of abortion. .... Feminists for Life has sponsored a national advertising campaign aimed at ending abortion in America. One of its mission statements proclaims: "Abortion is a reflection that we have not met the needs of women. Women deserve better than abortion." Jane Roberts was...

Supreme Court nominee Judge John Roberts has made conflicting statements over the years on Roe v Wade - calling it "settled law" during his 2003 appellate court confirmation hearings but "wrongly decided" while he served as deputy solicitor general. There's no doubt, however, where his wife comes down on the hotbutton issue of abortion. "The role of his lawyer wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, in Feminists for Life, a group dedicated to overturning Roe v. Wade, is . . . certain to raise liberal eyebrows," reports today's Boston Globe. In fact, Mrs. Roberts once served as executive vice president for the...

According to the Christian Wire Service and Redsate.org, the wife of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, Jane Roberts, is a former executive vice-president of Feminists for Life. Not only that, but the couple's two children are adopted. The Roberts family are practicing Catholic Christians.This is good news for pro-lifers everywhere. While we don't yet know how he'll rule in any given situation, his lifestyle indicates that he's sensitive to the pro-life cause and that he's likely committed to the constitutional principle of protecting the rights of the weak.Never underestimate the power that a wife has over her husband. -Michael McCullough...

[ home | archives | e-mail ] Life In the Family [Kathryn Jean Lopez  07/19 08:16 PM]Since the Washington Post wrote about Bush's women and abortion today, how about Judge Roberts's? John Roberts's wife, Jane, has served as executive vice president of Feminists for Life (one of my favorite groups).

Two-time Emmy winner and New York Times best-selling author Patricia Heaton pled for the life of Terri Schiavo today as Terri's life-sustaining feeding tube was removed. Heaton serves as Honorary Chair of Feminists for Life of America. "We must not let Terri Schiavo be starved to death," said Heaton. "This deliberate and painful destruction of a woman's life cannot be justified or tolerated. Terri deserves better." Fifteen years ago Terri's husband Michael testified in the medical malpractice suit he filed: "I believe in the vows I took with my wife: through sickness and health, for richer or poor. I married...

A representative of a pro-life women's group was edited out of an upcoming MTV documentary that is scheduled to air tonight on the youth-oriented music television station. Former Feminists for Life intern Natalie Nardelli was slated to appear in tonight's "Choose or Lose: Sex, Votes and Higher Power," one in a series of programs designed to educate young adults on political issues in the upcoming elections and to encourage them to vote. In an email to Nardelli, MTV defended its decision. "[T]he pro-life bites we ended up using were from an expert who was more representative of the mainstream objection...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Actor Martin Sheen has backed out of being listed as an endorser for the pro-abortion march sponsored by leading abortion advocacy groups. Whether the listing of him as a sponsor was accidental or if Sheen didn't know the march's purpose is to support abortion is still a question. That Sheen, who plays a fictitious president on the hit NBC drama "West Wing," was listed as a sponsor of the pro-abortion march was a surprise. Though he holds liberal views on other political issues, Sheen is a longtime pro-life supporter. In 2001, Sheen was listed by Feminists...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Unlike many of her Hollywood friends, two-time Emmy winner Patricia Heaton, star of the hit comedy series "Everybody Loves Raymond," won't be attending Sunday's pro-abortion march in Washington. "Many of the celebrities on the list are my friends," Heaton explained, "but when it comes to championing abortion, we go our separate ways." "I find it impossible to subscribe to a philosophy that believes that the destruction of human life is a legitimate solution to a problem that is mostly social, economic and psychological," said Heaton. "In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have...

Just released figures from Planned Parenthood show the agency turned a $36 million profit in 2003, a three-fold increase over last year, even though the downward trend in abortion rates continues nationwide. A third of that income came from performing 227,385 abortions this year, up from 213,000 in 2002, according to Jim Sedlak, executive director of the pro-life group Stop Planned Parenthood. American taxpayers gave at least $250 million to the federally funded "nonprofit” agency, which has a $450 million annual budget. It remains to be seen how much the agency will rake in from their controversial fund-raising Christmas card,...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Washington Times newspaper is receiving criticism for disqualifying Patricia Heaton, an Emmy-award winning actress and Feminists for Life's honorary chairman, from winning a new annual award. In December, the newspaper took votes from readers for its first annual "Nobles and Knaves" contest, to celebrate and bemoan the best and worst people of the year. Feminists for Life was pleased to see that Heaton, a star on the hit comedy series "Everybody Loves Raymond," was one of the nominees for Noble of the Year. The pro-life organization receives hundreds of emails each time Heaton stands up...

WASHINGTON D.C. -- A national women's organization announced this week that Illinois registered nurse Jill Stanek is one of several women awarded the Feminists for Life annual award, "Remarkable Pro-Life Women." In the field of medicine, Ms. Stanek, long-time activist Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson and breast cancer surgeon Dr. Angela Lanfranchi were recognized for their work in preserving life. Stanek, who resides in Mokena, was employed at Oak Lawn's Christ Hospital in 1999 when she witnessed the death of a baby whose birth was prematurely induced for the purposes of abortion. The baby was born alive weighing less than a...

When you think about Hollywood and the values it portrays, what words come to mind? “Liberal?” “Pro-homosexual?” Even “depraved?” What about “pro-life?” Given the longstanding support for abortion among many in the entertainment industry, pro-life sentiments are rarely heard from Hollywood. Indeed, most programs have toed a politically correct line when it comes to the issue. Yet, last season, a few of television’s traditionally left-leaning shows broke that silence by referring to a “fetus” as a “baby” or a “human being” and even giving a legitimate reason why the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion was flawed. What’s most encouraging...

OPINION PIECE FROM A PRO-LIFE FEMINIST by Marilyn Dickstein Kopp This Saturday marks the twenty-sixth anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision, yet the abortion controversy continues to rage. In 1973, the nine- member, all-male Supreme Court legalized a procedure that, while intended as a last resort, has now become practically a way of life -- one out of four U.S. pregnancies today end on the abortion table. While the media have cast the debate as liberals vs. conservatives and as those supporting women's rights vs. those supporting the rights of the fetus, perhaps some new questions are in order....

She's the head of "Feminists for Life." She mentioned wearing a Bush/Quayle button in '92 and getting dirty looks. Interesting interview. She's got guts.

NOT EVERYBODY IN HOLLWOOD IS AN IDIOT, THOUGH [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Talking to Bill O'Reilly last night about being pro-life in Hollywood, two-time Emmy-winner Patricia Heaton, from Everybody Loves Raymond said: "it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life." In discussing abortion she said, talking about her work as chairman for Feminists for Life: "The early feminists were pro-life. And really abortion is a huge disservice to women, and it hasn't been presented that way. So -- so it's a -- there's a sort of an in...