Roberts testified that Roe v. Wade was settled law during his confirmation hearings for the Court of Appeals a couple years ago. Since the Democrats have decided not to oppose Roberts, they better hope that's true. It still seems we don't have enough information about this guy. And it sure sounds from his days in the Reagan administration that he is a pretty damn strong opponent of a woman's right to choose:
As a young lawyer in the Reagan White House, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts concluded that a group's memorial service for aborted fetuses was "an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy."Okay, he's using the anti-choice crowd's language. You have to think he is one of them. And, as Michael notes in his earlier post, Roberts scoffed at the concept of equal pay for equal work. Reading today's news, you don't get the sense that John Roberts had a lot of respect for the rights of women. Now, that could be just my interpretation.
Roberts' wrote the advice in an October, 1985 memo after he was asked to review a proposed telegram from President Reagan to the memorial service promoted by the California Pro Life Medical Association.
"The president's position is that the fetuses were human beings, or at least cannot be proven not to have been, and accordingly a memorial service would seem an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy," wrote Roberts.
We still don't know a lot about John Roberts. And, the White House won't give all the information that the Senate Democrats want. Think about this. They did release info. that says Roberts is against equal pay for equal work and the he refers to "the abortion tragedy."
What else is the Bush White House withholding?
