Elena Kagan is Pro-Abortion

IMMEDIATE ACTION IS NEEDED!

I received a troubling letter from Americans United for Life Action (AUL) regarding the new Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan.  Rather than paraphrasing the letter, I decided to post it here:

There is a startling new development in the Kagan nomination. We now know that Elena Kagan appeared willing to lobby not one, but two medical organizations.


During her time in the Clinton Administration, Elena Kagan urged the President to oppose any meaningful restrictions on partial-birth abortion. She told President Clinton at the time that any real limitations on abortion were “unconstitutional.” In addition, it now appears that Kagan pushed her agenda one step further by lobbying two major medical organizations to publicly change their positions on partial-birth abortion.

In a June 15th legal memo from our sister organization, Americans United for Life, AUL attorneys raised additional concerns about Kagan’s apparent lobbying efforts to change the position of a major medical group – the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) – on partial birth abortion.
When Kagan found out in December 1996 that ACOG was considering a statement that its experts "could identify no circumstances under which the [partial-birth] procedure... would be the only option to save the life or preserve the health of the woman," Kagan wrote a memo stating that this “of course would be [a] disaster.”


In other words, Elena Kagan knew that if ACOG’s scientific opinion became public, her argument that partial-birth abortion is necessary would be completely discredited.

Kagan intervened and drafted language to alter ACOG’s position.

Yesterday, Kagan was questioned about this by several Senators and admitted that the new language was in her handwriting.

“I'm really stunned by what appears to be a real politicization of science,” Senator Orrin Hatch said yesterday. “The political objective of keeping partial-birth abortion legal appears to have trumped what a medical organization originally wrote and left to its own scientific inquiry they had concluded.”

Kagan told Senator Hatch that “….there was no way in which I would have or could have intervened with ACOG, which is a respected body of physicians, to get it to change its medical views on the question.”
Evidence released yesterday by Americans United for Life attorneys, however, reveals that Kagan may have lobbied the American Medical Association (AMA) to change its position as well.
Kagan was concerned about an AMA policy that that there is no identified situation in which a partial-birth abortion is medically necessary. She acknowledged in an email recovered from the Clinton Library files that she was in a meeting “on whether the AMA policy can be reversed at its convention on June 23.” She stated that “We agreed to do a bit of thinking about whether we (in truth, HHS) could contribute to that effort.”
 This cryptic and troubling email demands further explanation.

Kagan was so opposed to the passage of a ban on partial-birth abortion, she hoped that ACOG and the AMA would suppress or modify their views and, written evidence suggests, may have worked behind the scenes to make that happen.

Evidence from Kagan’s time in the White House indicates that she may have been more involved in lobbying medical groups on partial-birth abortion than she admitted yesterday under oath.


Kagan’s possible lobbying of medical organizations on its own is troubling, but the effect of this successful effort is even more startling.

Later, a federal judge in Nebraska relied on the ACOG policy statement to strike down the federal prohibition of partial-birth abortion. Shannen Coffin, a then-Justice Department attorney defending the federal ban related how the judge emphasized the “integrity of the process that led to” the statement, writing that, “neither ACOG nor the task force members conversed with other individuals or organizations . . . concerning the topics addressed.” Coffin recounted that, “Kagan’s role was never disclosed to the courts.”

Dr. Yoest is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee TODAY and will raise this all-important issue.

ACTION ALERT: Americans United for Life Action is calling for an immediate Senate investigation into the discrepancy between Kagan’s current characterization and what the written evidence indicates. All outstanding questions must be answered. The American people deserve to have all of the facts before their representatives consider a lifetime appointment to the nation’s highest court.

Please CLICK HERE to contact your Senator immediately to call for an urgent Senate investigation.

Yours for Life,

Charmaine Yoest, Ph. D.
President & CEO
Americans United for Life Action

PLEASE, contact YOUR Senator.  I have provided a link to help you locate the name, address and telephone numbers of every Senator in the 111th Congress.  Take a minute and let your voice be heard for the children that can't speak for themselves.  Elena Kagan is NOT a candidate for life and she is not what we want on the Supreme Court.  Thank You!

One more note is that today, Charmaine Yoest had the opportunity to represent the pro-life movement by testifying before Congress during the Kagan confirmation hearings.  They will be hearing on television (I believe C-SPAN) later today.

Remember what Horton said in his closing line of Horton Hears a Who, "So let that be a lesson to one and to all.  A person's a person. No matter how small."

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Focus on the Family is also calling for the Pro-Life people to rally to STOP this nomination.  Her nomination could be brought to the Senate floor very soon.  There is GREAT concern about her stance on matters that pertain to family values, marriage and life.  She is noted as hostile to marriage and supports abortion rights.   As solicitor general, she criticized the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), writing that the Obama administration "believes that (DOMA) is discriminatory and supports its repeal."  She has also publicly criticized polices and court decisions that prevent taxpayer dollars from funding abortion.

She has NO judicial experience and very little courtroom experience.  She stated on her Senate Judiciary Questionnaire that she had never tried a case all the way to a decision or verdict.

"73 percent of Americans want a moderate or conservative justice appointed to the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan is a true-blue liberal ideologue.  On top of that, she has zero experience as a judge."  Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst at CitizenLink.

Please contact CitizenLink with the link above and let your voice be heard!