Pro-life groups are speaking out today against President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan. There isn’t much of a paper trail on Kagan but from what pro-lifers have been able to glean, and the fact that NARAL has thrown their support behind her, confirming Kagan would be a serious setback for the unborn.
President Obama said just recently that while he doesn’t have a litmus test for a nominee, he does want ”somebody who is going to be interpreting our Constitution in a way that takes into account individual rights, and that includes women’s rights.” We have to presume Kagan fits that description.
A big concern that is Kagan has indicated she may be sympathetic to using international laws to make and interpret laws in the US, including an unlimited abortion right.
Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, told LifeNews.com that “abortion groups are actively attempting to create the impression that international norms require countries to provide access to abortion. During Kagan’s nomination hearing for Solicitor General, Senator Specter questioned her about the use of foreign sources of law in constitutional decision-making.”
Students for Life of America launched www.IOpposeKagan.com this morning and are asking people to sign a petition in opposition to confirming Elena Kagan.
And Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, said that “Elena Kagan has strong ties to abortion-advocacy organizations and expressed admiration for activist judges who have worked to advance social policy rather than to impartially interpret the law.”
On background on Elena Kagan, AUL revealed that:
Kagan not only publicly and repeatedly criticized federal regulations that prohibited recipients of Title X family planning funds from counseling on or referring women for abortions, she argued that the regulations amounted to the subsidization of ‘anti-abortion’ speech. Kagan will further entrench the Court’s self-appointed role as the sole arbiter of abortion policy because she believes the role of judges is to ‘advance’ social policy rather than faithfully apply the law.
Stay tuned to St. Michael Society for continual updates regarding the Supreme Court battle.
