Until now, I really couldn’t see anything that should disqualify Kagan from serving on the US Supreme Court. Certainly don’t agree with her political views, likely positions on issues, and anticipated willingness to set aside the US Constitution when she believes it is the right thing to do, but that’s what we get for electing Barack Obama.
But now…
Now that we hear that she altered a statement by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to word it such that it would not be a “disaster” for President Clinton’s position on a partial birth abortion ban, essentially withholding the truth from Congress… a willful act of deceit… she should be disqualified from consideration.
Have our standards dipped so low that we are ready to appoint to our highest court, for life, a woman who had no problem changing the meaning of the conclusion of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to suite the political goals of her boss (President Clinton) and to support a position she very likely holds herself.
From FoxNews:
As a Republican-controlled Congress in the 1990s debated whether to ban the controversial procedure, Kagan wrote a memo in which she expressed concern about a statement that the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologist was going to release that revealed its panel of experts found no circumstances in which the procedure was the only option for saving the life of the woman.
“This, of course, would be a disaster,” she wrote.
Kagan revised the language so the final statement in 1997 said that the partial-birth abortion “may be the best and most appropriate procedure in particular circumstances to save the life or preserve the health of the woman.”
So.. the final statement went from no circumstance where partial birth abortion is necessary to save the life of the mother… to a statement where partial birth abortion is the best option to save the life of the mother.
Yeah… those two statements mean the same thing….
Call it what you want… I call it perpetrating a fraud on the American people….
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