NRLC COMMENT ON NEW NARAL TV AD

 

The following statement by National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) pertains to a television ad attacking Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, released today (August 26, 2005) by NARAL.  For more information, call 202-626-8825 or send e-mail to Legfederal@aol.com. 

NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson commented:
 
"NARAL was afraid to even mention the word 'abortion' in their ad, because they know that the majority of Americans favor much greater protections for unborn children, including a ban on partial-birth abortion.

 

"The ad says that John Roberts would be 'a decisive vote on the Supreme Court.'  It is common knowledge that six justices favor Roe v. Wade, so even if Roberts were to conclude that Roe v. Wade should be changed, that would still be the minority view on the Court.  However, Roberts might indeed be 'a decisive vote' on the two abortion-related issues with which the Court will soon deal -- whether to uphold state laws that require parental notification for minors' abortions, and whether to uphold the federal ban on the brutal partial-birth abortion method.
 
"The effect of a future Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade would not be to directly restrict or ban abortion, but rather, to allow elected lawmakers to decide what protections ought to exist for unborn children."

 

As the leading pro-abortion litigation group expressed it last year:  "A Supreme Court decision overturning Roe would not by itself make abortion illegal in the United States.  Instead, a reversal of Roe would remove federal constitutional protection for a woman’s right to choose and give the states the power to set abortion policy."  ("What if Roe Fell?," Center for Reproductive Rights, September 2004).

 

For more information regarding persistent myths about Roe v. Wade, click here.

 

For information on the controversy surrounding a TV ad issued by NARAL earlier in August, click here.