<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>(Holly is a friend of mine and is the Executive Director of South Carolina Citizens for Life - Dianne)<BR></FONT></STRONG><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: Nat. Right to Life on Miers Nomination<BR>Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:44:08 -0400<BR><BR>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New">From: Holly Gatling, Executive Director</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New">Subject: National Right to Life statement on Miers nomination</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><EM><B><I><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This is an update from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State>, issued Tuesday, October 4, 2005, at 7 PM. For further information, contact </SPAN></FONT></I></B></EM><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A class="" title=mailto:mediarelations@nrlc.org href="mailto:mediarelations@nrlc.org"><EM title=mailto:mediarelations@nrlc.org><I title=mailto:mediarelations@nrlc.org><FONT title=mailto:mediarelations@nrlc.org face=Arial><SPAN title=mailto:mediarelations@nrlc.org style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">mediarelations@nrlc.org</SPAN></FONT></I></EM></A></SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><EM><B><I><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, call 202-626-8825, or
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<P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">National Right to Life Committee </SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Statement on the Nomination </SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">of Harriet Miers to the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> Supreme Court</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></B><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">WASHINGTON</st1:place></st1:State> (October 4, 2005) -- The following statement can be attributed to David N. O'Steen, executive director of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC):</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> "President Bush has an excellent record of appointing judges who recognize the proper role of the courts, which is to interpret the law according to its actual text, and not to legislate from the bench. We believe that Harriet Miers is another nominee who will abide by the text and history of the Constitution."</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></B><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">BACKGROUND ON HARRIET MIERS</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></B><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> According to published reports, Harriet Miers has been active since about 1980 in the Valley View Christian Church in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Dallas</st1:place></st1:City>. </SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> The </SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><EM><B><I><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dallas Morning News</SPAN></FONT></I></B></EM><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> reported on October 4, 2005, "Ron Key, who has been Miers' pastor since the early 1980s, said his church is anti-abortion."</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> According to <A class="" title=http://www.nrlc.org/judicial/olaskyblogclips.html href="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=20586926&sid=705259&m=125916&u=NRLC&s=http://www.nrlc.org/judicial/olaskyblogclips.html"><FONT color=#0000ff>material posted this week</FONT></A> on the Internet by Marvin Olasky (editor of </SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><EM><B><I><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">World</SPAN></FONT></I></B></EM><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> magazine), Nathan Hecht, a Republican member of the <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:State> Supreme Court, is an elder at the same church, and has been a close friend of Miers for decades. Hecht told Olasky "her personal views are consistent with that of evangelical
Christians."</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Hecht also said that he and Miers "went to two or three prolife dinners in the late 80s or early 90s." </SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> In 1989, according to various press accounts, Miers donated $150 to Texans United for Life, a Dallas-based pro-life group, and she was listed as a "bronze patron" in the group's dinner program.</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> On October 4, 2005, the </SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><EM><B><I><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dallas Morning News</SPAN></FONT></I></B></EM><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> published a story based on an interview with Lorlee Bartos, who was Miers' campaign manager in 1989 when Miers ran, successfully, for an at-large seat on the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Dallas</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Council. The story reported that the two women discussed abortion once during that period, and quotes Bartos as saying, "She is on the extreme end of the anti-choice movement," and, "I think Harriet's belief was pretty strongly felt. I suspect she is of the same cloth as the president." </SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> In 1993, when Miers was the president of the Texas State Bar, she helped lead an unsuccessful effort to rescind a pro-abortion stance taken by the American Bar Association in favor of a neutral position. Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the conservative Federalist Society, said, "The <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">ABA</st1:place></st1:City> is a place where there was an awful lot of liberal activism, so it took some courage for a woman to take the position she did." On October 4, 2005, the New York Times ran a story about Miers' role in the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">ABA</st1:place></st1:City> fight, under the headline "Miers Was Leader in Effort Within Bar to Rescind Support for Abortion." </SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY:
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></B><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">ROE AND THE CURRENT SUPREME COURT</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></B><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Some commentary on the current nomination incorporates incorrect information or assumptions about the legal status quo on abortion. On September 14, 2005, the </SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><EM><B><I><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Los Angeles Times</SPAN></FONT></I></B></EM><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> published an eye-opening examination, written by its veteran Supreme Court reporter, on the true scope of the "right to abortion" created by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade and more recent rulings, which are still often badly misunderstood. (It is <A class="" title=http://www.nrlc.org/Judicial/SavageLATimes091405.html
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<P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Among currently sitting Supreme Court justices, six (including Sandra Day O'Connor) have voted in favor of Roe v. Wade -- that is, in support of the doctrine that abortion must be allowed for any reason until "viability" (about five and one-half months), and for "health" reasons (broadly defined) even during the final three months of pregnancy. Two justices (Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas) have voted to overturn Roe, and one (John Roberts) has not voted on the matter.</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> A refutation of the myth that the Supreme Court has been divided 5 to 4 on Roe v. Wade, issued by the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Annenberg</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>'s FactCheck.org, is posted here: </SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A class="" title=http://www.factcheck.org/article176.html href="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=20586926&sid=705214&m=125916&u=NRLC&s=http://www.factcheck.org/article176.html"><STRONG title=http://www.factcheck.org/article176.html><B title=http://www.factcheck.org/article176.html><FONT title=http://www.factcheck.org/article176.html face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN title=http://www.factcheck.org/article176.html style="FONT-FAMILY:
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> However, regarding the permissibility of a meaningful ban on partial-birth abortion, the current Court is split 5-3 in favor of partial-birth abortion (not counting Chief Justice Roberts, who has not voted on the issue). In 2000, Justice O'Connor voted to say that Roe v. Wade prevented bans on partial-birth abortion. (Stenberg v. Carhart, 2000) On September 23, the Bush Administration's Solicitor General asked the Supreme Court to accept for review, this term, a lower-court ruling that struck down the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. The Solicitor General's petition is posted <A class="" title=http://www.nrlc.org/judicial/carhartcertpetition.pdf
href="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=20586926&sid=705260&m=125916&u=NRLC&s=http://www.nrlc.org/judicial/carhartcertpetition.pdf"><FONT color=#0000ff>here</FONT></A>.</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> On November 30, 2005, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of <st1:place w:st="on">Northern New England</st1:place>, a case which will determine whether states can continue to require that a parent be notified before an abortion is performed on a minor daughter. Some observers believe that the case may be decided on a 5-4 vote, one way or the other.</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></P>
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