10 August 2005

NARAL-Pro Choice group Ad is dispicable

It's very interesting to me how political everything the government does now has become. I can understand 527s and other political groups jumping in on elections and what not trying to get folks in office that suppor their agendas but NARAL ( a pro-choice group) has crossed the line in my view with their new commercials against Nominee Roberts.

A couple things annoy me about NARAL's ad such as this is not a political office and he's not essentailly running for office but rather is up for a nomination with input via a vote by senators. Also, their ad is just flat a LIE!

According to Factcheck.org (non-partisan media group) there are gross and intentional distortions that are flat out slander to be honest.

From Factcheck.org:
In words and images, the ad conveys the idea that Roberts took a legal position excusing bombing of abortion clinics, which is false. To the contrary, during the Reagan administration when he was Associate Counsel to the President, Roberts drafted a memo saying abortion-clinic bombers "should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law."

The ad fails to mention that the "court briefs" it mentions are actually from nearly seven years before the abortion clinic bombing talked about in the ad.

The brief that Roberts signed, and on which the NARAL ad is based, is from another matter entirely. It is dated April 11, 1991. Furthermore, it is from a civil lawsuit brought by abortion clinics against protesters who were blockading the clinics. Bombing was not an issue.

This really is dispicable on so many levels. The idea that as a judge he cannot sever his political leanings from ruling law is absurd and shallow at best. I hope that this NARAL ad embarasses many pro-choicers and they voice their concerns at the outright distortions and politization of the SC nominee process. Every nominee that's ever been up for confirmation has had a stance on the issue of abortion but apparently the only ones (from NARAL's viewpoint) that can possible rule on the issue with clarity, integrity, and constitutional reliance are liberal pro-choice leaning judges.

Sad really.

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