Brownback Hearings on Roe & Doe Will Help Set Bar for New SC Nominees

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NPLAC: Brownback Hearings on Roe & Doe Will Help Set Bar for New Supreme Court Nominees

6/23/2005 3:21:00 PM


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To: National Desk

Contact: Joe Giganti, 703-928-9695 or [e-mail], for the National Pro-Life Action Center on Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON, June 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National Pro-Life Action Center on Capitol Hill (NPLAC) — the uncompromising voice of pro-life America in our Nation's Capital — praises Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) for holding today's hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights titled, "The Consequences of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton."

"We applaud Sen. Brownback's attempt to shed the light of truth on the damaging effects the Roe and Doe decisions have had on our Constitutional system of law and the moral fabric of our country as a whole," said Paul Schenck, executive director of NPLAC. "Today's hearings will likely vindicate Chief Justice Rehnquist's dissenting opinion in Roe and Doe, in which he predicted that these decisions would wreak havoc upon our constitutional republic."

With at least one Supreme Court vacancy expected, the pro-abortion lobby has been increasing pressure on the Bush administration to nominate a pro-Roe v. Wade judge. "A pro-abortion Supreme Court nominee is unacceptable — period," stated Stephen G. Peroutka, chairman of NPLAC and a Maryland attorney. "Equally objectionable is a judge who clearly understands the illegitimate nature of the Roe and Doe decisions, but acquiesces to abortion industry litmus tests and swears fidelity to Roe v. Wade."

Abortion advocates have repeatedly stated that nominating anti-Roe judges to the Supreme Court would instigate a constitutional crisis. "For nearly 20 years, the office of chief justice has been occupied by someone who has been highly esteemed as a clear-thinking, hardworking and fair-minded judge — and who is also the author of the Roe v. Wade dissent," observed Schenck. "Nominating pro-life judges willing to right the injustice of the Roe decision and all of its progeny will actually maintain the continuity of the court, not disrupt it. The real constitutional crisis began with these decisions and will only end when they are overturned."

Rather than having potential Supreme Court nominees promise to abide by the Roe and Doe decisions, NPLAC believes that a different measure should be applied. "The standard by which any potential Supreme Court nominees — or potential chief justice, for that matter — should be evaluated is by their concurrence with Rehnquist's dissent in Roe v. Wade," Peroutka concluded.

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1. If those anti-choice nuts understood the implications of overturning...

... Roe they wouldn't touch it with a 40 foot pole. They could say goodbye to all medical privacy.