LA Times - Wife of Nominee Holds Strong Antiabortion Views

[realFedUp]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/la-na-wife21jul21,0,5600880,print.story

Wife of Nominee Holds Strong Antiabortion Views
By Richard A. Serrano
Times Staff Writer

July 21, 2005

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 not considered relevant in weighing someone's job suitability. But abortion is likely to figure prominently in the Senate debate over John Roberts' nomination. And with his position on the issue unclear, abortion rights supporters expressed concern Wednesday that his wife's views might suggest he also embraced efforts to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

"It's unclear how all this will affect her husband," said Jennifer Palmieri, a spokeswoman with the Center for American Progress, a liberal public policy group. "It's possible that he would have a different view than her. It's just that in the absence of information about this guy, people are looking at her and trying to read the tea leaves."

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[HockeyMom]

1. If Santorum is pleased with him,

that says all I need to know about him.

[Justitia]

2. She is also a War Profiteer. Her firm advises on "Iraq reconstruction"

contracts.

Woman Hating War Profiteer.

The perfect Bush Admin Stepford Wife.

[realFedUp]

3. Wonder if she's a member of the Federalists also....nt

[IndianaGreen]

4. Judge Roberts is Catholic

The important issue to us is what sort of Catholic is Judge Roberts? Is he a Catholic like John Kerry or Ted Kennedy, men that can separate their religious views from their acts as public servants, or is Roberts more like the type of politician that the Vatican prefers: anti-gay and anti-abortion.

That's a fair line of inquiry!

[realFedUp]

5. I agree

What kind of Christian...we have all kinds now as listed
my signature...is he Opus Dei like Scalia and Thomas,
is he a Domionist like Scalia, a Rapturist...does
he attend Mass every day, is he as devout as his wife?
Does his faith POV dominate his views? How does he
feel about Harry Potter :-)

What church related charities do they give to?

[mandomom]

6. Another thread today shows a brief

that Judge Roberts wrote opposing certain restrictions on anti-choice protestors.

[realFedUp]

7. would you post that thread link....thanks...nt

[Mz Pip]

9. Anyone who defends

the actions of that terrorist organization, Operation Rescue is suspect to me. Randall Terry must be positively orgasmic about now.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[RebelOne]

8. How the hell can you call yourself a feminist

if you are anti-choice?

[realFedUp]

10. well, it's another Republican oxymoron.....

from Republican oxymorons.

[sunnystarr]

11. I checked it out on Wikipedia ...

He and his wife, Jane Marie Sullivan Roberts, have two adopted children, Josephine ("Josie"), age 5 and Jack, age 4. Robert's wife was previously the vice-president of Feminists for Life, a feminist anti-abortion organization with an extensive college outreach program.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Roberts_Jr.

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As these statements show, Feminists for Life believes that being pro-life is not only compatible with feminism, it is the natural conclusion of feminist values. Members and supporters of the organization frequently claim that being a pro-life feminist "is not an oxymoron, it's redundant."


Harvard Law School professor Dr. Mary Ann Glendon descibes pro-life feminism as follows:

"What is clearly 'old-fashioned' today is the old feminism of the 1970s -- with its negative attitudes toward men, marriage and motherhood, and its rigid party line on abortion and gay rights."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminists_for_Life