Did Kagan Manipulate Language To Protect Partial-Birth Abortions?
(The Blast) - On Elena Kagan’s second day of confirmation hearings, she stated the court’s rulings mandate that in any law regulating abortion, “the woman’s life and the woman’s health have to be protected.”
However, according to recent allegations surfacing, this may be far from the case. It’s being reported Kagan “willingly manipulated medical science to fit in the Democratic party’s political agenda on the hot-button issue of abortion”, according to Shannen Coffin, a former deputy attorney general during the Bush Administration.
In 2000, when the United State Supreme Court struck down Nebraska’s ban on partial birth abortion, the language purportedly came from a “select panel” of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). They declared the partial-birth-abortion procedure “may be the best or most appropriate procedure in a particular circumstance to save the life of preserve the health of a woman.” Sound familiar with Kagan’s statements above?
Here’s the ironic part: the ACOG report, when it was initially drafted said nothing of the kind. In fact, it said exactly the opposite. At that point in time, the panel “could identify no circumstances under which this procedure . . . would be the only option to save the life or preserve the health of the woman.”
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However, according to recent allegations surfacing, this may be far from the case. It’s being reported Kagan “willingly manipulated medical science to fit in the Democratic party’s political agenda on the hot-button issue of abortion”, according to Shannen Coffin, a former deputy attorney general during the Bush Administration.
In 2000, when the United State Supreme Court struck down Nebraska’s ban on partial birth abortion, the language purportedly came from a “select panel” of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). They declared the partial-birth-abortion procedure “may be the best or most appropriate procedure in a particular circumstance to save the life of preserve the health of a woman.” Sound familiar with Kagan’s statements above?
Here’s the ironic part: the ACOG report, when it was initially drafted said nothing of the kind. In fact, it said exactly the opposite. At that point in time, the panel “could identify no circumstances under which this procedure . . . would be the only option to save the life or preserve the health of the woman.”
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- (The Corner on National Review Online) - Kagan's Smoking Gun? Partial-Birth Abortion
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