Patterico's Pontifications » Abortion

Planned Parenthood on Twitter: Today, the Trump admin is forcing us out of the Title X program — our nation’s program focused on family planning, of which we serve 40% of patients. This is a...

https://patterico.com/2019/08/20/planned-parenthood-refuses-federal-funds-over-restrictions/

Pro-choice billboards erected outside Texas town that declared itself ‘sanctuary city for the unborn’: Two pro-choice billboards outside a small town in Texas were put up this month after th...

https://patterico.com/2019/07/28/abortion-is-freedom-translation-kill-your-children-and-youre-free/

The Post and Courier (May 18, 2019): Frothy Beard Brewing Co. deals with fallout from co-owner’s social media posts on abortion. Charleston City Paper (May 20, 2019): Wesley Donehue to leave ...

https://patterico.com/2019/05/21/headlines-the-frothy-beard-controversy/

Woman travels from Canada to Albuquerque to get an Abortion: She said she called at least 60 places all over Canada about abortion services. No one

https://patterico.com/2019/05/17/headline-woman-travels-from-canada-to-albuquerque/

How many of you have seen this recent image bouncing around the Internet? It was apparently created by the deep thinkers at NARAL Pro-Choice America and has been promoted by the DailyKos and Huf...

https://patterico.com/2014/07/01/today-in-failed-criticism-from-the-left/

In Austin, a teacher gives one of her students the “morning after” pill — and it doesn’t work out so well: Steinberg, who also was a math teacher at LBJ, gave the pill to a 16-year-old st...

https://patterico.com/2012/02/09/austin-teacher-charged-with-giving-morning-after-pill-to-student/

(Accepted Wisdom™ is an occasional feature of this site, highlighting contradictory viewpoints held by the elite.) It is Accepted Wisdom™ that: If a woman decides to end her pregnancy, no mat...

https://patterico.com/2012/01/03/accepted-wisdom%E2%84%A2-on-how-to-properly-react-to-the-death-of-a-fetus-or-infant/

Via Hot Air, the lazy blogger’s gold mine of blogging material, comes news that Rick Perry has just changed his mind on abortion in the case of rape or incest. He’s against it: Perry said the...

https://patterico.com/2011/12/28/rick-perry-changes-his-mind-on-abortion-does-this-really-matter/

(Thanks to Hot Air for the link. Also — Media Matters is on the attack against me — read their response here.) Media Matters for America is a well funded, well organized and effective truth ...

https://patterico.com/2011/03/31/three-short-films-about-media-matters/

NRO’s Shannen W. Coffin has a major story that impacts the Kagan confirmation hearings, and PowerLine’s John Hinderaker summarizes it: While working in the Clinton White House, Elena Kagan w...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/29/is-this-the-kagan-smoking-gun/

The Senate health care bill passed 219-212 in the House. Thirty-four Democrats voted against it. The Republicans have submitted a Motion to Recommit that addresses the tenuous nature of handling...

https://patterico.com/2010/03/21/senate-bill-passed-by-house/

The AP reports House Democrats may pass health care reform next week following agreements today that call for more federal spending on student loans: “Under White House pressure to act swiftly...

https://patterico.com/2010/03/12/democrats-choose-student-loans-over-babies/

Jurors in Wichita, Kansas, took only 37 minutes to convict Scott Roeder for the murder of Dr. George Tiller: “The jury deliberated for just 37 minutes before finding Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansa...

https://patterico.com/2010/01/29/roeder-convicted-in-murder-of-abortion-doctor/

Super Bowl XLIV pits Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints against Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts. It’s scheduled for February 7, 2010, so the famous Super Bowl ads haven’t even a...

https://patterico.com/2010/01/26/the-tebow-super-bowl-ad/

Hot Air links this Live Action undercover video of Planned Parenthood’s advice to mothers considering abortion: Here is Live Action.org‘s description of the video taken at an Appleton WI Pla...

https://patterico.com/2009/12/09/planned-parenthood-that-is-not-a-baby/

The abortion issue may heat up as ads air like this one from the Center for Reproductive Rights: The ad likely opposes the Stupak Amendment discussed in this earlier post. — DRJ

https://patterico.com/2009/11/16/abortion-its-no-joke/

One reason the Pelosi health care bill passed the House was the Stupak Amendment that reaffirmed the Hyde Amendment’s ban on the use of federal funds “to pay for any abortion or to cover any...

https://patterico.com/2009/11/15/the-white-house-takes-on-the-stupak-amendment/

The man who murdered George Tiller committed a despicable and indefensible act. But that doesn’t mean we have to pretend that we support what Tiller did for a living. I firmly oppose most late-...

https://patterico.com/2009/06/01/oreilly-refuses-to-back-down-on-tiller/

The AP reports that the killer of George Tiller, Scott Roder, apparently left a comment on Operation Rescue’s site talking about Tiller’s “death camp” — and how a “presence” should ...

https://patterico.com/2009/06/01/death-of-abortion-doctor-leftists-begin-to-point-the-fingers/

1) Do you believe killing an abortion doctor is morally justified? 2) If you had an al Qaeda terrorist in the sights of your gun, would you pull the trigger? If you were the President and you wer...

https://patterico.com/2009/05/31/questions-for-those-who-believe-abortion-is-murder/

A Kansas abortion doctor has been shot and killed in church: “George Tiller, a Wichita doctor who was one of the few doctors in the nation to perform late-term abortions, was shot to death on ...

https://patterico.com/2009/05/31/abortion-doctor-killed/

Although protesters were present, Barack Obama was given a courteous welcome at the Notre Dame commencement and he encouraged Americans to learn to disagree respectfully: “Understand – I do ...

https://patterico.com/2009/05/17/obama-at-notre-dame/

I said that? RNC Chairman Michael Steele said today that despite telling an interviewer he supports “individual choice” and state-level decisions on abortion, he in fact opposes abortion and ...

https://patterico.com/2009/03/12/another-i-didnt-mean-it-moment-for-michael-steele/

Pure evil: Eighteen and pregnant, Sycloria Williams went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique to terminate her 23-week pregnancy. Three days la...

https://patterico.com/2009/02/06/baby-born-live-in-botched-abortion-then-tossed-alive-into-the-trash-to-die-by-the-abortion-clinic/

The AP reports: President Barack Obama on Friday struck down the Bush administration’s ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information...

https://patterico.com/2009/01/24/obama-ends-ban-on-financing-pro-abortion-groups-acts-like-hes-doing-something-very-special/

Gift certificates are good gifts when you aren’t sure what to buy that special woman in your life who puts everyone else first: “Why not buy a loved one a gift this holiday season that they ...

https://patterico.com/2008/11/26/the-perfect-christmas-gift/

Over at my new reader-written blog The Jury Talks Back, poster Not Rhetorical posits a fascinating hypothetical: Though I know a lot of people have zero patience for them, I can never really get ...

https://patterico.com/2008/11/24/a-reader-poses-an-interesting-abortion-hypothetical/

This isn’t really news, but I think it needs emphasizing anyway; a vote for Obama is a vote for partial-birth abortion. He will see to it that partial-birth abortion happens in this country aga...

https://patterico.com/2008/11/02/a-vote-for-barack-obama-is-a-vote-for-partial-birth-abortion/

I support Proposition 4, the proposition requiring parental notification for minors seeking abortions. In a September article, the Los Angeles Times quoted backer Don Sebastiani, who sums up my p...

https://patterico.com/2008/11/01/yes-on-proposition-4-parents-should-be-told-if-their-daughter-wants-an-abortion/

A Canadian doctor is worried that Sarah Palin’s decision to have a Down’s Syndrome child will lower Canada’s abortion rate: hers fear Ms. Palin’s emergence as a parental role model sends ...

https://patterico.com/2008/09/11/doctor-worried-palins-example-will-mean-fewer-abortions/

Posted by WLS: Ben Smith’s blog over at the Politico has this entry from earlier today: A Virginia reader reports that Obama’s on the radio there with an ad hitting McCain on abortion rights....

https://patterico.com/2008/09/02/another-example-of-why-democrats-lose-national-elections-obama-goes-to-the-abortion-card/

The Supreme Court of California takes on the interesting issue here . Be sure to read Justice Corrigan’s concurrance as well. – Justin Levine

https://patterico.com/2008/08/28/can-an-unplanned-pregnancy-ever-be-described-as-inflicting-great-bodily-injury-as-a-matter-of-law/

Dana Goldstein at TAPPED reminds us of the “facts” about partial-birth abortion: Intact dilation and extraction, aka D&X or — to the antis — “partial birth abortion,” accounts for les...

https://patterico.com/2008/07/07/tapped-into-a-canard-about-partial-birth-abortion/

So: Obama claims that we should be able to ban post-viability abortions absent a “serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy” — with a later “clarification” that he means to includ...

https://patterico.com/2008/07/06/how-is-naral-reacting-to-obamas-statements-on-abortion-with-less-distress-than-earl-ofari-hutchinson/

Immediately below, I mention an AP article that soft-soaps Obama’s support for partial-birth abortion. But there is another aspect to the article that is worth a new post. Namely, Obama claims ...

https://patterico.com/2008/07/04/obama-i-dont-like-post-viability-abortions-for-mental-health-reasons-but-i-vote-for-laws-and-supreme-court-justices-who-do/

The Associated Press “reports”: Last year, after the Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on late-term abortions, Obama said he “strongly disagreed” with the ruling because it “dramatical...

https://patterico.com/2008/07/04/ap-chooses-pc-over-facts-in-describing-obamas-views-on-partial-birth-abortion/

Zachary Roth at the Columbia Journalism Review has this odd and quite untrue passage: In recent presidential elections, anyone paying a basic amount of attention to the race has gone to the polls...

https://patterico.com/2008/06/11/cjr-heres-whats-at-stake-for-the-supreme-court-if-you-completely-ignore-history/

Jodie Percival’s first son died of a kidney condition, “and the second was born with serious kidney damage.” So when she got pregnant again, she decided to abort the baby. Deciding to termi...

https://patterico.com/2008/06/05/mother-glad-her-baby-survived-abortion/

David Savage, in his familiar role as drama queen, drags out the old “THEY’LL OVERTURN ROE!!!” bogeyman in this morning’s L.A. Times: McCain promised that, if elected, he would follow Pre...

https://patterico.com/2008/05/19/david-savage-reprises-his-role-as-drama-queen/

Yale Art major Aliza Shvarts will do anything for her art: “Art major Aliza Shvarts ’08 wants to make a statement. Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, ...

https://patterico.com/2008/04/17/art-and-life-at-yale/

The L.A. Times tells us that Roe is a landmark ruling — and we must follow precedent, precedent, precedent: That appalling possibility should trouble all the justices, but particularly Roberts...

https://patterico.com/2008/01/23/a-paean-to-liberal-precedent-at-the-los-angeles-times/

It took Nixon to go to China. It took Bill Clinton, a Democrat, to get control of the federal deficit. (Sorry, conservatives, but it’s true.) And it might take Rudy Giuliani to appoint solid Su...

https://patterico.com/2008/01/23/message-to-religious-conservatives-giuliani-would-appoint-solid-supreme-court-justices/

Via Michelle Malkin: Over the course of the evening, a few friends call. Each time I say something like, “You know, we were going to go out, but Emily’’s just not feeling well.” This is true...

https://patterico.com/2007/12/24/quote-of-the-month-2/

In an initiative that could have a significant impact on abortion in Colorado, the Colorado Supreme Court allowed a group to begin collecting signatures for a ballot initiative that would define...

https://patterico.com/2007/11/14/colorado-initiative-would-define-personhood-as-a-fertilized-egg/

In his book “The Nine,” Jeffrey Toobin says: “While we find no reliable data to measure the phenomenon,” Kennedy wrote, “it seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret t...

https://patterico.com/2007/09/30/toobin-no-woman-has-ever-regretted-an-abortion/

But telling them the truth about their baby’s development, of course, would be seen by many as a terrible imposition on their sacred rights . . . The Supreme Court of New Jersey has ruled that ...

https://patterico.com/2007/09/15/lying-to-women-considering-getting-an-abortion-a-ok/

The Chicago Tribune reports: Elizabeth Edwards said Tuesday that her husband’s health-care plan would provide insurance coverage of abortion. Speaking on behalf of Democratic presidential candi...

https://patterico.com/2007/07/19/democrats-pledge-to-provide-federal-health-insurance-coverage-for-abortions/

From the June 14 L.A. Times comes this mealy-mouthed report: A type of late abortion is restricted From Times Wire Reports July 14, 2007 Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco signed legislation in Baton...

https://patterico.com/2007/07/15/louisiana-bans-some-type-of-abortion-procedure-the-details-of-which-are-unclear-to-us-at-the-moment/

In last night’s debate of Democrat presidential contenders, the candidates were offered the chance to bash the Supreme Court’s partial-birth abortion decision — and each candidate duly did ...

https://patterico.com/2007/04/27/if-i-thought-he-understood-what-he-was-saying-this-answer-might-just-earn-my-vote/

In a new post, Prof. Geoffrey Stone backtracks from his earlier assertion that Catholicism, and not legal principle, was behind the majority decision in the partial-birth abortion case. Stone now...

https://patterico.com/2007/04/25/prof-stone-backtracks-without-admitting-it/

Below is my e-mail exchange with Chicago Law School Professor Geoffrey Stone, regarding his recent mischaracterization of the partial-birth abortion decision. The payoff is near the end, when Pro...

https://patterico.com/2007/04/24/i-take-it-youre-not-a-lawyer-my-e-mail-exchange-with-chicago-law-professor-geoffrey-stone-regarding-his-mischaracterization-of-the-partial-birth-abortion-decision/

University of Chicago Law School professor Geoffrey Stone has this jaw-droppingly incompetent analysis of Gonzales v. Carhart, the partial-birth abortion decision: Gonzales reversed an earlier de...

https://patterico.com/2007/04/20/chicago-law-professor-gives-stunningly-incompetent-summary-of-partial-birth-abortion-decision/

The L.A. Times‘s David Savage has an article about the partial-birth abortion decision. Savage implies that the opinion takes as a given the prospect that the ban will cause women significant h...

https://patterico.com/2007/04/19/david-savage-some-experts-say-partial-birth-abortion-is-safer-but-i-wont-tell-you-what-the-others-say/

Here’s a quote from the partial-birth abortion opinion, just so you know what we’re dealing with. Here is another description from a nurse who witnessed the same method performed on a 26½-we...

https://patterico.com/2007/04/19/what-partial-birth-abortion-actually-involves/

Get all the details, including a link to the opinion, at How Appealing. I engaged in a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth over how Kennedy would vote on this, but he came through. I’ll have f...

https://patterico.com/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-federal-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/

In the oral arguments to the partial-birth abortion cases, the Justices and lawyers barely discussed whether the federal government has the constitutional authority under the Commerce Clause to e...

https://patterico.com/2006/11/11/the-commerce-clause-and-the-partial-birth-abortion-ban/

I’m always disgusted with those who want to keep the abortion issue alive as a political issue to benefit Republicans. I’ve long suspected that the Karl Roves of the world don’t really want...

https://patterico.com/2006/11/09/would-a-loss-in-the-partial-birth-abortion-case-benefit-the-pro-life-movement/

I listened to all of the argument in the first partial-birth abortion case last night, and most of the second. Let me briefly summarize the points that jumped out at me. I’m going from memory h...

https://patterico.com/2006/11/09/partial-birth-abortion-argument/

SCOTUSBlog says that Justice Kennedy’s vote is in play on the partial-birth abortion cases: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, proceeding calmly, cautiously and analytically, left the clear impression...

https://patterico.com/2006/11/08/kennedy-set-to-sell-us-out-again/

I wasn’t willing to predict the outcome of the election further than observing that I thought Allahpundit had the right idea when he said he’d be drinking to ease the pain. Indeed, the electi...

https://patterico.com/2006/11/08/prediction-on-partial-birth-abortion-argument/

The partial-birth abortion case is about to come before the Supreme Court. So I want to revive an issue I have raised here before. This question is only for those of you who support partial-birth...

https://patterico.com/2006/11/07/question-for-supporters-of-partial-birth-abortion/

The New York Times‘s Linda Greenhouse distorts the impact of a federal law banning partial-birth abortion in an article today misleadingly titled The Roberts Court Takes on Abortion: The admini...

https://patterico.com/2006/11/05/why-linda-greenhouse-lies-to-new-york-times-readers/

I have some questions for the pro-abortion crowd here. More precisely, the questions are directed to those who support partial-birth abortion. (I hinted at this the other day, but buried it deep ...

https://patterico.com/2006/03/25/questions-for-those-who-support-partial-birth-abortion/

The often sensible Kevin Drum had this silly post the other day: OPPOSING ABORTION….Are hardcore abortion opponents genuinely motivated by a belief that abortion is murder? Or are they driven m...

https://patterico.com/2006/03/23/kevin-drum-praises-false-dichotomies-regarding-abortion/

I commend to you this very interesting essay on the case challenging the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. The essay suggests that Justice Breyer and Justice Kennedy might both be surprise ...

https://patterico.com/2006/03/15/abortion-on-the-horizon/

I’m done with the abortion posts, though I encourage you readers to continue the debate. I leave the topic with this thought: this robust and civil debate is exactly what the topic deserves —...

https://patterico.com/2006/02/20/a-discussion-of-abortion-%C2%97-part-six-permission-to-speak-sir/

We left off last night asking: when does a fetus begin to command moral respect, such that we should view it as something other than a mere clump of cells appended to a woman’s body? I have rep...

https://patterico.com/2006/02/16/a-discussion-of-abortion-part-four-when-does-a-fetus-resemble-a-baby/

I appreciate all of the comments people have been making on this week’s abortion posts. There are people coming at the question from all sides, which is great. What is even better is that we ha...

https://patterico.com/2006/02/15/a-discussion-of-abortion-%E2%80%94-part-four-summing-up-todays-comments/

We’re not quite where I thought we’d be in this discussion, so I am going to try to briefly recap where we are in the discussion, and ask another set of follow-up questions. I am still seeing...

https://patterico.com/2006/02/15/a-discussion-of-abortion-part-three-how-flexible-is-your-position/

Interesting discussion in response to yesterday’s questions about abortion. Let me summarize what I see in the responses (and please: keep them coming!) and pose some follow-up questions. First...

https://patterico.com/2006/02/14/a-discussion-of-abortion-part-two-follow-up-questions/

It is easy to conclude that people cannot have a productive conversation about abortion. We live in a society where barking and simplistic sloganeering often substitutes for serious debate. In th...

https://patterico.com/2006/02/13/a-discussion-of-abortion-part-one-setting-the-stage/

(Note: “The Power of the Jump”™ is a semi-regular feature of this site, documenting examples of the Los Angeles Times’s use of its back pages to hide information that its editors don’t ...

https://patterico.com/2006/01/22/the-power-of-the-jump%E2%84%A2-los-angeles-times-suggests-yet-again-that-alito-will-be-a-fifth-vote-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/

You still have to call them on it even when it’s utterly predictable. Jonathan Adler has the details.

https://patterico.com/2006/01/22/kate-michelman-liar-i-know-i-know-big-shock/

Ed Whelan says that this L.A. Times article misstates the holding of today’s decision in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood. He appears to be right. The article is by our old friend David Savage. P.S...

https://patterico.com/2006/01/18/la-times-misstates-holding-of-ayotte/

Today, the L.A. Times gives you true facts that create a completely misleading impression: that Supreme Court nominee Sam Alito might provide the fifth vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. We’ve been ...

https://patterico.com/2006/01/08/david-savage-falsely-makes-alito-sound-like-a-potential-fifth-vote-to-overturn-roe/

In the “New Year’s Resolution” version of the L.A. Times “Outside the Tent” column, one of my proposed resolutions was for the paper: “To make it clear in stories about judicial nomin...

https://patterico.com/2006/01/08/new-york-times-editors-illiterate-about-roe/

The L.A. Times‘s Ron Brownstein this morning engages in a standard liberal media trick: equating opposition to Roe v. Wade to opposition to legalized abortion. Specter may be right. Or Johnse...

https://patterico.com/2005/12/12/someone-tell-ron-brownstein-that-opposition-to-roe-is-not-the-same-as-opposition-to-legalized-abortion/

Here is a newly released 1985 Alito memo on a then-pending abortion case. (Via Confirm Them.) It further confirms Alito’s philosophical opposition to Roe. It also signals his cautious approach ...

https://patterico.com/2005/11/30/1985-alito-memo/

The Ayotte parental notification case was argued today in the Supreme Court, and you can read a report of the arguments here. (Via Confirm Them.) (Howard Bashman has much more, of course — incl...

https://patterico.com/2005/11/30/ayotte-parental-notification-case-argued/

Matt Franck has an interesting post at Bench Memos about Judge Alito’s opinion, expressed in a 1985 job application, that the Constitution does not protect a woman’s right to an abortion. Acc...

https://patterico.com/2005/11/18/franck-alitos-opinion-on-roe-was-a-legal-opinion-not-a-personal-one/

Giving prominence to quotes from sources who agree with you is a well-known technique for framing a story. In this morning’s L.A. Times article on the Alito job application, the editors sure do...

https://patterico.com/2005/11/15/front-loading-the-quotes-you-like-the-la-times-on-the-alito-job-application/

Fasten your seatbelts! The Alito rollercoaster may have been chugging slowly along without any excitement — but that may have been merely the beginning of the ride. We’re headed for that firs...

https://patterico.com/2005/11/14/breaking-alito-firmly-said-constitution-does-not-protect-right-to-abortion/

Kate Michelman has an op-ed in this morning’s Los Angeles Times titled This time, Alito, it’s personal. I guess the fact that it’s personal frees Michelman from any constraints of accuracy....

https://patterico.com/2005/11/13/this-time-its-personal-so-to-hell-with-the-facts/

I recently criticized William Saletan for writing a smarmy piece mocking Judge Alito for his dissent in Casey. Aside from the incredibly annoying tone of the piece, one of the piece’s main flaw...

https://patterico.com/2005/11/10/william-saletan-just-doesnt-get-it/

I started my search for election results by clicking on this AP article, via Drudge. It says all the propositions went down. But I didn’t entirely trust it because it says Proposition 73, the p...

https://patterico.com/2005/11/09/all-propositions-defeated/

According to the Daily Princetonian, Judge Alito’s Princeton faculty advisor says that Alito thinks Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided. The article is perfect example of burying the lede. The fir...

https://patterico.com/2005/11/08/alito-faculty-advisor-alito-thinks-roe-was-wrongly-decided/

Laurence Tribe is sometimes intellectually honest (no, really: look at his support for the Second Amendment), but not always. Unfortunately, today is one of the majority of times that he isn’t....

https://patterico.com/2005/11/07/larrys-world/

Judge Alito has been described in numerous reports as a cautious and conservative jurist, respectful of precedent and deferential to government. What does this signify for the prospects that he m...

https://patterico.com/2005/11/06/overruling-roe-with-an-incrementalist-approach/

Mr. Saletan, it’s a pleasure to have you before our new Commission for the Regulation of American Pundits. (I understand your objection to the acronym; maybe we should have thought of that whe...

https://patterico.com/2005/11/03/why-does-william-saletan-treat-women-like-girls/

Judge Alito has been criticized for applying the concept of an undue burden differently from the way it was applied by the majority in Casey. But look what the authors of the joint opinion in Cas...

https://patterico.com/2005/11/02/the-casey-decision-as-a-defense-of-alitos-casey-dissent/

The L.A. Times alters a quote in the Casey decision to make Judge Alito look bad today, implying that the law Judge Alito voted to uphold was really a consent provision rather than a notification...

https://patterico.com/2005/11/01/la-times-subtly-alters-quote-to-make-alito-look-bad/

There is a lot of buzz saying that Judge Samuel Alito may be President Bush’s nominee for the Supreme Court. If Judge Alito is nominated, the primary Democrat talking point is going to be his ...

https://patterico.com/2005/10/30/alitos-dissent-in-casey/

From the Washington Post (h/t this commenter): Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers said in a speech more than a decade ago that “self-determination” should guide decisions about abortion

https://patterico.com/2005/10/25/postcards-from-the-ledge-miers-speeches-indicate-a-view-of-abortion-as-an-issue-of-self-determination-for-women/

Andrew at Confirm Them catches Reuters equating a vote against Roe v. Wade with a vote to “ban abortion.” (The Washington Post and ABC are also guilty; both reprinted the story with the same ...

https://patterico.com/2005/10/18/message-to-reuters-reversing-roe-would-not-ban-abortion/

Here is that Texans United for Life Questionnaire in which Harriet Miers signaled her support for a constitutional amendment banning abortion unless necessary to protect the life of the mother. T...

https://patterico.com/2005/10/18/miers-supported-abortion-ban-so-what/

Eleanor Smeagol Smeal is doing it again: writing her supporters to tell them that Justice O’Connor was the fifth vote to uphold basic abortion rights: The right to a safe, legal abortion is on ...

https://patterico.com/2005/10/18/smeagol-lies-again/

Via commenter Andrew comes a link to a story about Harriet Miers’s meeting with Chuck Schumer, titled When Harriet met Chuck. The piece ends with a quote from transcripts of a 1992 ABA meeting,...

https://patterico.com/2005/10/18/that-anti-abortion-harriet-miers-on-choice-and-total-freedom-for-women/

In my view, too much is being made of this report that two friends of Harriet Miers said they thought she would vote to overturn Roe if she had the chance: On Oct. 3, the day the Miers nomination...

https://patterico.com/2005/10/17/will-miers-vote-to-overturn-roe-its-anybodys-guess/

If you haven’t read the book The Brethren before, and if you are a judicial conservative, then I am probably about to upset you a great deal. One of the Justices to whom Harriet Miers is most f...

https://patterico.com/2005/10/11/lewis-powell-nice-guy-terrible-justice/

Margaret Carlson says that Miers will be the “fifth vote” against Roe v. Wade: Some conservatives are loudly shocked that Bush ignored the long list of known quantities among conservative jur...

https://patterico.com/2005/10/04/margaret-carlson-calls-miers-the-fifth-vote-to-overturn-roe/