Elena Kagan and Abortion

When seeking confirmation for the office of solicitor general in 2009, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan filled out a 51-page questionnaire for the Senate Judiciary Committee in which she was asked to list the organizations to which she belonged or participated in since she was graduated from law school. She wrote the following:

"In a questionnaire I submitted to the Senate in connection with a judicial nomination in 1999, I listed membership in the National Partnership for Women and Families as a result of charitable contributions. I have no current memory of whether such contributions ever made me a member of this organization." (The Wall Street Journal).

The National Partnership for Women and Families, whose president calls Kagan "a superb and brilliant choice" for the Supreme Court(National Partnership), is a defender of women's access to "reproductive health services", a euphemism that includes access to abortion. Note the following statements taken from nationalpartnership.org:

"The National Partnership celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, helps New Jersey become the third state to provide paid leave, and plays a critical defensive role in stopping some of the harmful Bush Administration changes to the Family & Medical Leave Act and regulations affecting women's access to reproductive health services."

"What a difference a year makes! The National Partnership helps lead coalition efforts that result in significant victories, such as enactment of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Children Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act, repeal of the global gag rule, and passage of economic security and health information technology provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act."

"We also engage in Supreme Court cases that involve discrimination, sexual harassment, a woman’s right to make her own reproductive health decisions, equal and full application of the Family & Medical Leave Act, and other critical issues."

"Federal judges determine whether companies will be penalized for failing to stop discrimination or sexual harassment, whether workers qualify for time off under the Family & Medical Leave Act, or whether women will have access to the reproductive care they need."

"Our goal is to ensure that the courts operate fairly and free of bias, and are not used to turn back the clock on women’s progress."

The media has been lamenting the fact that Kagan has a short paper trail (i.e. US News and World Report). With little, if any, written words concerning her beliefs on abortion, Kagan can avoid taking a stand on this controversial issue during her confirmation hearings by speaking political double talk. So how do we know her position on abortion? Look at where she has contributed her money. The National Partnership for Women and Families is a supporter of women's reproductive freedom. No where on their website did I see concern expressed for the unborn. Kagan's monetary contributions speak for themselves.

May God have mercy on our nation.
United to Stop Abortion