Does this White House think pro-lifers are stupid? Not just regular stupid, I mean like Joe Biden kind of stupid. Well, it’s clear that they do.
Just days after Elena Kagan was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Obama some old memos from the Clinton Presidential library have leaked out from Kagan’s tenure in the White House. Weird timing, huh?
The memo I’m sure will be spun by the media as proving what a moderate Kagan is. But the facts belie the spin.
A copy of the memo is here for your perusal.
ABC News reports:
In 1997, Kagan and Bruce Reed, her boss at the Office of Domestic Policy, urged President Clinton to support a Democratic proposal to prohibit abortions late in pregnancy when a fetus might be viable, even though some abortion-rights groups opposed the proposal.
You know, this is supposed to make pro-lifers think that maybe Kagan won’t be all that bad because she urged President Clinton to support a limitation on abortion.
But what it actually shows is that Kagan is willing to play politics with abortion and she’ll do whatever it takes to ensure abortion access.
At the time of the memo in 1997, President Clinton had publicly said he opposed late-term abortions except in cases when it was necessary to save the life of the mother or prevent serious harm to her health. As we all know the health of the mother clause essentially negates the entire bill because anything and everything can be construed as the health of the mother including economic concerns.
According to the memo, Republicans at the time were trying to push through legislation banning post viability abortions, which contained an exception for the life of the mother, but no exception for her health. So what Kagan was pushing for Clinton to sign was something which pretended to limit abortion but in reality did no such thing.
Kagan wrote that she believed that if the President offered support for an amendment put up by then Senator Tom Daschle he could ensure that his veto could not be overridden. So far from being a pro-life memo Kagan’s memo is actually seeking to split the pro-life movement.
So don’t be fooled into thinking Kagan is reasonable on abortion because of what the media says about the memo.
May 12, 2010 at 5:06 am
I think Obama might have had a wake-up call after his last appointment! He might not have "vetted" her enough and then realized that he appointed "a Catholic."
I really don't think Obama and his people know what they are doing now. The seemed to have their acts together during the election, but it's been all down hill since election day. He's turning out to be a big disappointment on all fronts.
May 12, 2010 at 12:08 pm
What good is it to have a Catholic when she does not follow the Church's teaching… take Pelosi and Biden, for example…
Not vetted her enough? I doubt it. He/they know exactly who she is and what she stands for…
May 12, 2010 at 3:20 pm
I don't believe that Kagan is Catholic. I think she is Jewish. FWIW.
And, yes, O knows what he is doing with this nomination.
May 12, 2010 at 7:44 pm
The best measure of prolife stance is
1. an intact marriage between an Man and a Woman
2. three or more children by natural birth and/or adoption
3. Photos or film of at least three occassions of marching for life and/or sidewalk mistery outside an abortion mill
at least
otherwise any statments that one is not an abortionist(supporter) , should never be believed
May 13, 2010 at 11:44 am
"Memo Shows Kagan Helped Clinton-Era Defeat of Partial Birth Abortion Ban"
May 13, 2010 at 6:37 pm
"Planned Parenthood Endorses Elena Kagan Nomination for Supreme Court"
Gee I wonder why…
Article here:
http://www.lifenews.com/nat6329.html
May 15, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Yeah! Because we would be better off trusting Republican appointees like Souter and O'Conner.