Harriet Miers and the Abortion Issue

[kerrygoddess]

Harriet Miers and the Abortion Issue
October 18th, 2005

Does she or doesn’t she? The claim up until now has been no one knows for sure. The religious right has been in a tizzy regarding Harriet Miers views on abortion.

Today, a breaking news story from AP cites “an April 1989 questionnaire sent out by the Texans United for Life group,” asking “If Congress passes a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution that would prohibit abortion except when it was necessary to prevent the death of the mother, would you actively support its ratification by the Texas Legislature.”

Miers checked “yes” to that question, and all of the group’s questions, including whether she would oppose the use of public moneys for abortions and whether she would use her influence to keep “pro-abortion” people off city health boards and commissions.

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1. And today, Miers backs off her statements to Specter regarding privacy

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=an0PkYw.U3XI&refer=us

Miers Disavows Saying Constitution Protects Privacy (Update2)

Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers disavows telling a U.S. senator that she believes there's a constitutional right to privacy and that a case the high court relied on when it legalized abortion was correctly decided, the lawmaker's spokesman said in a statement.

Senator Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Republican and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the statement after telling reporters that Miers, the White House counsel, had told him there was a right to privacy.

Specter's spokesman, Bill Reynolds, said Miers called the senator after reading news accounts of his comments about their conversation to say Specter had misunderstood her position about privacy or the 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut.

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I really don't see how she can hang on through all this self-inflicted idiocy.

[kerrygoddess]

4. It's seems like

it's one lie then another - or one stretch of the truth then another.

[mongo]

2. And yet the only thing I saw on the news this morning

is chuck Schumer debunking a RW story that Miers told some other judges that she would overturn Roe V. Wade.

How the hell are the democrats supposed to fight against her when the news media only tells us what they want us to hear?

[Auntie Bush]

3. Just like they did with creating fear of terror. Notice how many

terror threats (Now two tunnels in NJ) have we have had since bush's* poll numbers went over dam and down into the sewer.

[flpoljunkie]

5. After the Specter clarification and this today, Dems ought to vote No.

It appears Harriet is being coy about how she would rule on Roe v. Wade. I don't buy it. The woman's deep affliation with her rabid pro-life church is evidence enough of where she stands on women's reproductive rights.

Has Senator Feinstein reported on her visit with Miers? Am very interested in her thoughts on Miers and Roe.

[flpoljunkie]

6. Feinstein: "I asked a number of questions and she did not answer them..."

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-miers18oct18,1,4853231.story?page=2

Miers also met with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who provided no details of their discussion, saying she thought it was fairer to let the nominee speak for herself during the confirmation hearings.

"I asked a number of questions and she did answer them," Feinstein said. "But the key is to ask the questions in public."

[kerrygoddess]

7. Good to see DiFi is on top of this.

If she suspect Miers will turn on Roe v Wade, she'll vote no.