Pro-Abortion Groups Attack Judge Roberts  

By Holly Smith, Field Coordinator

   A quick visit to any pro-abortion website, including  NARAL, NOW, and Planned Parenthood, reminds us how much is at stake with the nomination of Judge John Roberts to the Supreme Court. 

   Planned Parenthood shows pictures of a Planned Parenthood Rally at the Supreme Court the morning after Bush announced his nominee. NARAL raises a call to arms while pleading, "The battle for the Supreme Court has begun…Don't let his choice end yours."  The National Organization for Women claims, "Bush Picks Anti-Roe Judge...Women's Lives on the Line."  

   With his choice of Judge Roberts, President Bush continued his philosophy of selecting judicial nominees who "will strictly apply the Constitution and laws, not legislate from the bench," as Mr. Bush said in announcing the nomination of the 50-year-old member of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

   But a nomination is not enough. Judge Roberts' confirmation is going to require a lot of work, tireless determination, and faithful giving. (See page one.)

   Pro-abortion leaders have already declared war on Judge Roberts. The Supreme Court is all important to them. State legislatures across the nation are enacting commonsensical limitations on abortion, which pro-abortionists count on the High Court to overturn or minimize. 

   Long before President Bush nominated Judge Roberts, indeed even before Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement, pro-abortion senators and advocacy groups were fundraising and mobilizing their supporters to defeat whomever President Bush nominated. In fact, their filibusters of previous Bush nominees to federal appeals courts were just a warm-up act for the Supreme Court nomination. 

   They have already begun massive grassroots and Internet campaigns to urge the Senate to stall and eventually defeat any judge who respects the Constitution as written. They know they need activist judges to continue to legislate from the bench if they want to keep a so-called "constitutional right" to abortion.

   Our position is the majority position. And any number of polls, including a July 6 Gallup Poll, reveals that many more Americans want the court to be more conservative than want the Court to be more liberal. Judicial restraint is a hallmark of Judge Roberts.

  Interestingly, in light of we are typically told, respondents to a recent USA Today poll were asked, "If a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court favors overturning the Roe v. Wade decision on abortion, in your view, should that alone disqualify that person from serving on the Supreme Court, or not?" Seventy-two percent said it shouldn't.

   Despite his impeccable credentials, pro-abortionists will oppose Judge Roberts because he will not promise to uphold Roe v. Wade and strike down all restrictions on abortion. National Right to Life needs your help to counter the pro-abortion attacks on Judge Roberts

    Most local news does not make the national newspapers. This makes it difficult to keep track of what senators may be saying in local interviews or Op-ed columns, and at community events. 

   If your local newspaper mentions a statement or the position of your senator regarding Judge Roberts or any of President Bush's other judicial nominees, please send the whole article to: National Right to Life, Federal Legislation Department, 512 10th St NW, Washington, DC 20004.

   Speaking of your local newspaper, "Letters to the Editor" are among the best read portions of any newspaper. This is an extremely effective communication tool to reach the community at large. 

   Write a letter to inform your community of Judge Roberts' stellar credentials and excellent qualifications. 

   A letter to the Editor can also be used to provide important information on the facts of Roe v. Wade.   

    Your letter should explain that Roe legalized abortion for any reason into the sixth month, and for "health" reasons -- defined to include emotional "health" -- even during the final months.  It should explain that the current Supreme Court majority even said that Roe means that no state can prevent an abortionist from performing a partial-birth abortion whenever he sees fit.

   You can educate your community about on the number of abortions performed nationally (roughly 1.3 million), within your state, and within your local community. You can also write about the dangers of abortion to women-- both medical and psychological--which will show readers that legal abortion is neither safe nor rare in the U.S.

   Letters should be well-written and accurate. Be sure to respond to any pro-abortion letter, news article, or editorial published.

   Involve as many different people as possible. Both the editors and the public will benefit from reading many pro-life perspectives.

   Finally, please share this important information with every pro-life friend and every person you know who cares about the integrity of the U.S. Constitution. 

   NARAL declares that "Women's lives are on the line."

   Inadvertently, they are right. If we do not win in the courts, unborn girls and boys will continue to be legally killed at a rate of 1.3 million each year and their mothers will suffer physically and mentally.

  We cannot afford to lose--the lives of too many children and the lives of too many women require our faithful commitment.