<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>SCCL <sccl@sclife.org></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">From: "SCCL" <sccl@sclife.org><BR>To: "SCCL" <sccl@sclife.org><BR>Subject: Fw: AP - Miers tried to change American Bar Association's pro-abortion stance<BR>Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:31:47 -0400<BR><BR>
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<DIV><STRONG><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To: SCCL e-mail tree</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">From: Holly Gatling, Executive Director</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Subject: Harriet Mieres fought ABA's pro-abortion policy</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"><STRONG>Below is an Associated Press report on Harriet Miers' campaign to have the American Bar Association end its practice of supporting abortion-on-demand and taxpayer-funded abortion. </STRONG></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">By ANNE GEARAN</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush's choice to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice and moderate abortion rights supporter Sandra Day O'Connor was a leader in an unsuccessful fight to get the nation's largest lawyers' group to reconsider its pro-abortion rights stance.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">As president of the Texas State Bar in 1993, Harriet Miers urged the national American Bar Association to put the abortion issue to a referendum of the group's full membership. She questioned at the time whether the ABA should ``be trying to speak for the entire legal community'' on an issue that she said ``has brought on tremendous divisiveness'' within the ABA.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Miers was among a group of lawyers from the Texas bar and elsewhere who had argued that the ABA should have a neutral stance on abortion.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The ABA's policy-making body overwhelmingly rejected the Texas lawyers' group's 1993 proposal to put the issue to a referendum by mail of the ABA's then-roster of about 360,000 members.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">``Our current position (in favor of abortion rights) has no meaning unless it is endorsed in fact by the membership,'' Miers said at the time.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The ABA's position, adopted in 1992, endorses the basic outlines of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling that women may choose to have an abortion without state interference prior to the point at which a fetus could live outside the womb, and after that point if the woman's life or health were threatened by the pregnancy.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Although Miers' personal view of abortion was not explicit in 1993, Leonard Leo, a White House adviser on Supreme Court nominations highlighted her efforts as part of the reason that ``conservatives should be very happy with this selection.''</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">``As a leader of the bar, Harriet Miers was a fearless and very strong proponent of conservative legal views. She led a campaign to have the American Bar Association end its practice of supporting abortion-on-demand and taxpayer-funded abortions,'' Leo said a memo on the Miers nomination.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Miers was very active in the ABA, and senators will probably question Miers about deep divisions within the organization about the abortion question and the ABA's role in taking policy positions.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The ABA briefly held the neutral position Miers and others supported from 1990 to 1992.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR><DIV>
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