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Kate Michelman, the former president of the NARAL pro-abortion organization, joined pro-abortion MSNBC talk show host Chris Matthews and said vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan is “crazy” to believe that unborn children should be legally protected.h/t Jill StanekThe National Right to Life Committee, in tracking the votes Ryan has cast in Congress on important pro-life issues, has crafted a perfect 100% pro-life voting record.This year, Ryan is 10 for 10 in pro-life voting — voting to repeal Obamacare, cut off taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood repeatedly, stopping taxpayer funding for abortions in various instances, banning sex-selection abortions, providing for pro-life...

It was a crisp and brilliant autumn day last October when the medical and financial crises with which my family had successfully, if barely, coped for seven years became a catastrophe. ..My husband had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2002, a year after our daughter was paralyzed in a horse-riding accident. His balance had deteriorated until he fell two or three times at home last summer. In the face of his diminishing physical condition, a single fall could result in disastrous injury. We scheduled an appointment with his neurologist in Washington. We pulled up to the main entrance of...

Making a Race of it Salena Zito, Tribune-Review ...A lifelong Democrat, Michelman says she's become "increasingly frustrated" with the party's "lackluster support of women's rights." She's also disappointed with the Senate Democrat leaders' anointing of Casey. "I think they are testing this out to see how well a conservative plays out." Sacrificing principles and platforms for short-term political gain does not sit well with her.

WASHINGTON - Abortion rights advocate Kate Michelman says she will decide soon whether to enter the Pennsylvania Senate race as an independent, a bid that could cause more of a problem for the Democratic challenger than for Republican Sen. Rick Santorum. Michelman's entrance in the race could erode support for State Treasurer Bob Casey, an anti-abortion candidate who is expected to easily win the Democratic primary in May. For months, Casey has led Santorum, the No. 3 Senate Republican, in opinion polls and national Democrats consider the seat one of their best chances for a pickup. Michelman, a former president...

WASHINGTON — Abortion rights leader Kate Michelman is thinking of jumping into the Senate race in Pennsylvania as an independent. Michelman is appalled by Democratic Party leaders’ selection of anti-abortion candidate Bob Casey Jr. as their choice to try to unseat two-term Republican Sen. Rick Santorum. For Michelman and other supporters of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision, the final straw came in late January when Casey endorsed President Bush’s Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. Analyst and pollster Terry Madonna at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania said, “If she runs as an independent, they’ve given Santorum...

MICHELMAN FOR SENATE? [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Will Kate Michelman get into the Pennsylvania Senate race? From the Legal Times (sub. only): Already frustrated with the Democratic Party for putting forward an anti-abortion candidate to run against Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, says she has been asked by a number of women's groups and Democratic donors to jump into the hotly contested U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania as an independent. The final straw? When Santorum's Democratic challenger, Bob Casey, endorsed the nomination of Samuel Alito Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court. 'After Casey announced...

Statement of Kate Michelman on Today's Senate Judiciary Committee Vote 1/24/2006 11:32:00 AM To: National Desk, Supreme Court Reporter, Congressional Correspondent Contact: Jamie Shor, 202-628-7772 WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement of Kate Michelman, author of With Liberty and Justice for All, and former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America: "Today's vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee sets the stage for the next battle in the full Senate to protect a woman's constitutional right to choose. While not surprising, the vote illustrates the increasing ease with which politicians claim the pro-choice mantel, reap the political and...

Is Kate Michelman Telling the Truth About Her Own Abortion Story? by Jan LaRue, Esq. Posted Jan 24, 2006 Why would four doctors increase their risk of felony prosecution for performing an abortion by requiring Michelman to obtain written consent from her husband who had abandoned her? If their concern was a civil lawsuit, wouldn’t that have been outweighed by avoiding prison time? On January 12, 2006, Kate Michelman testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC) in opposition to the confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court. On January 9, 2006, the Web site "Democracy Now" posted...

Kate Michelman is the face of reproductive rights. It's a thin face with high cheekbones, dark eyes that can light up and a mouth with a corner that upturns at comic moments. For a generation, Michelman, 63, has been at the forefront of one of this country's thorniest debates. She was president of NARAL Pro-Choice America from 1985 to 2004. She is scheduled to testify this week in opposition to the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. And she has written a new book, "With Liberty and Justice for All: A Life Spent Protecting the Right to Choose."...

A leading abortion advocate, Kate Michelman, says that if it had been up to Judge Samuel Alito, she might not have been allowed, many years ago, to have the baby she was carrying killed. As you may know by now, Alito once ruled in favor of a law requiring that a married woman get her husband's consent before aborting. For Ms. Michelman, this ruling brings both bad memories and dark forebodings. At the time of her abortion, she recalls, her husband had abandoned her, leaving her with two other children; even so, she says it was a "painful" decision. It...

WASHINGTON -- The abortion lobby faces an uphill battle to prevent a pro-life justice from replacing a pro-choice justice on the Supreme Court. That explains why abortion rights activist Kate Michelman cited her personal history to try to generate emotion against the nomination of Federal Appellate Judge Samuel Alito. The problem is that the example she cited is inappropriate and inapplicable.Michelman, longtime former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said Alito as a judge affirmed legislation that would have required her to notify a husband who had abandoned her of plans to get an abortion. That raised the prospect of women...

(CNSNews.com) - Having lost the last two presidential contests as well as important congressional seats in 2002, Democrats may be ready to seek a new national party leader with more appeal to the political center, a chairman with a decidedly pro-life voting record. But the decision by former U.S. Rep. Tim Roemer of Indiana to enter the race to succeed Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe could motivate one of the most pro-abortion candidates in the DNC's history - former NARAL Pro-Choice America President Kate Michelman -- to join the race. Roemer, who is Catholic and whose voting record...

Abortion Advocate's Campaign Slams President Bush's Pro-Life Judges Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Leading abortion advocate Kate Michelman yesterday kicked off her nationwide campaign to mobilize pro-abortion voters behind Democratic nominee John Kerry. The effort is an attempt to defeat President Bush in November, thereby preventing him from nominating pro-life judges to the Supreme Court. "If Bush is given the opportunity, he will appoint right-wing Justices to the Supreme Court who will turn the clock back on our hard-won rights and freedoms," said Michelman, the former president of NARAL. Michelman, who stepped down as the head of one of the largest...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- After a multi-state primary on Tuesday, Massachusetts senator John Kerry put the icing on the cake in the contest to obtain the Democratic nomination for president. Should he defeat President Bush in November, Kerry says the first thing he will do as president is overturn a pro-life foreign policy that prevents taxpayer funding of abortions overseas. Kerry won nine out of the ten states that were up for grabs on Tuesday and pro-abortion Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, Kerry's main opponent, said he will officially leave the race on Wednesday.Meanwhile, in their last debate, prior...

NARAL Pro-Choice America: Santorum-Linked Group Succeeds in Pushing Total Abortion Ban in S.D.; Presents Most Direct Challenge to Roe 3/2/04 2:46:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk, Legal Reporter Contact: David Seldin of NARAL Pro-Choice America, 202-973-3032 WASHINGTON, March 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- NARAL Pro-Choice America, the leading national advocate of personal privacy and a woman's right to choose, today criticized Pennsylvania's U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum for his close connection to an organization pushing a direct Supreme Court challenge to a woman's right to choose. Last week, South Dakota's state legislature passed a total ban on legal abortion - with...

Pro-choice leader and senator trade compliments By WASHINGTON — Nearing the end of her long career as maybe the nation's best-known abortion rights advocate, Kate Michelman — president of NARAL Pro Choice America — was asked Monday which of her opponents she respects the most. "Sen. (Orrin) Hatch," she said with only minor hesitation during questions from the audience after a speech to the National Press Club. She said the Utahn, who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, "is a thorn in my little side when it comes to judicial nominations." But, she added, "he and I have had...

Leader of national abortion rights group to resignTuesday, September 23, 2003BY BRETT LIEBERMANOf Our Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Kate Michelman, who cut her teeth in Harrisburg and went on to become one of the nation's most influential abortion rights advocates, is stepping down after 18 years of heading the country's leading abortion rights group. Michelman, 61, was executive director of Planned Parenthood in Harrisburg before becoming president of what was then called the National Abortion Rights Action League in 1985. The organization became known as NARAL Pro-Choice America. Michelman worked to expand area reproductive health services and trained students and...

(CNSNews.com) - Kate Michelman, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, announced Monday that she will resign next spring after 18 years to care for her ailing husband and to work for the defeat of President Bush in the 2004 election. The mother of three children and grandmother of five said she plans to step down after NARAL's April 25 march in Washington to support "abortion rights," an event she hopes will mobilize voters for the presidential election. "The next four years will almost certainly see at least two Supreme Court vacancies," Michelman said. "If George W. Bush is allowed to fill...

Newsweek's cover story on Fetal Rights for the June 9 issue is already causing quite a stir among abortion supporters. A Newsweek Poll shows that 46% of Americans believe that life begins at conception, while an additional 12% believes that it begins at implantation. Only 11% believe that life begins at birth, which means that 89% of Americans would acknowledge that the present abortion laws allow for at least some legalization of murder. The Laci Peterson story has popularized the question of fetal rights, since Scott Peterson has been charged with two murders, and the Unborn Victims of Violence Act,...