[Apologetics] Fwd: Nat. Right to Life on Miers Nomination

Sat Oct 8 15:08:10 EDT 2005

It is good that we have more than one pro-life
organization in this country.

In the past, the National Right to Life Committee
(NRLC) has received funding from the Republican
National Committee (RNC). It likely the NRLC knows
which side their bread is buttered on.

The pro-lifers who are VERY skeptical of Miers do not
receive money from the RNC or the federal government.

Art

--- Dianne Dawson <rcdianne at yahoo.com> wrote:

> (Holly is a friend of mine and is the Executive
> Director of South Carolina Citizens for Life -
> Dianne)
> 
> SCCL <sccl at sclife.org> wrote:From: "SCCL"
> <sccl at sclife.org>
> To: "SCCL" <sccl at sclife.org>
> Subject: Nat. Right to Life on Miers Nomination
> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:44:08 -0400
> 
> To:       SCCL e-mail tree
> From:    Holly Gatling, Executive Director
> Subject:    National Right to Life statement on
> Miers nomination
>  
> The National Right to Life Committee is widely
> respected for its well-researched, credible, and
> accurate information on pro-life issues.  
> 
> 
> 
> Please click here to read this message in a web
> browser
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This is an update from the National Right to Life
> Committee (NRLC) in Washington, issued Tuesday,
> October 4, 2005, at 7 PM.  For further information,
> contact mediarelations at nrlc.org, call 202-626-8825,
> or visit the NRLC website at http://www.nrlc.org 
> 
> National Right to Life Committee Statement on the
> Nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme
> Court
> 
> 
>      WASHINGTON (October 4, 2005) -- The following
> statement can be attributed to David N. O'Steen,
> executive director of the National Right to Life
> Committee (NRLC):
> 
> 
>     "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."
> 
> 
>  BACKGROUND ON HARRIET MIERS
> 
> 
>      According to published reports, Harriet Miers
> has been active since about 1980 in the Valley View
> Christian Church in Dallas. 
> 
> 
>     The Dallas Morning News reported on October 4,
> 2005, "Ron Key, who has been Miers' pastor since the
> early 1980s, said his church is anti-abortion."
> 
> 
>     According to material posted this week on the
> Internet by Marvin Olasky (editor of World
> magazine), Nathan Hecht, a Republican member of the
> Texas 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."
> 
> 
>     Hecht also said that he and Miers "went to two
> or three prolife dinners in the late 80s or early
> 90s." 
> 
> 
>     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.
> 
> 
>     On October 4, 2005, the Dallas Morning News
> 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
> Dallas City 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." 
> 
> 
> 
>     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 ABA
> 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
> ABA fight, under the headline "Miers Was Leader in
> Effort Within Bar to Rescind Support for Abortion." 
> 
> 
>  ROE AND THE CURRENT SUPREME COURT
> 
> 
> 
>      Some commentary on the current nomination
> incorporates incorrect information or assumptions
> about the legal status quo on abortion.  On
> September 14, 2005, the Los Angeles Times 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 here.)  The
> article also summarizes documents that reveal the
> internal processes at the Supreme Court that
> produced Roe v. Wade in 1973.
> 
> 
>     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.
> 
> 
>     A refutation of the myth that the Supreme Court
> has been divided 5 to 4 on Roe v. Wade, issued by
> the Annenberg Center's FactCheck.org, is posted
> here: http://www.factcheck.org/article176.html
> 
>     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 here.
> 
>     On November 30, 2005, the Supreme Court will
> hear oral arguments in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood
> of Northern New England, 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.
> 
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> approximately 3,000 local affiliates nationwide. 
> NRLC works through legislation and education to
> protect those threatened by abortion, infanticide,
> euthanasia, and assisted suicide.
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