Kagan's abortion stance has both sides guessing

LA Times ^ | May 15, 2010 | Christi Parsons and James Oliphant

[rdl6989]

In college Elena Kagan wrote an essay lamenting Republican gains in the 1980 election and referring to candidates backed by the Moral Majority as "avengers of 'innocent life' and the B-1 bomber."

Now that Kagan stands as a nominee to join the Supreme Court, some conservatives believe the 30-year-old remark may reveal a personal animosity toward their side of the abortion rights cause.

But liberal activists also wonder about Kagan's position. They point to memos she wrote as a policy staffer in the Clinton White House urging President Clinton to take a compromise position on some late-term abortions.

[mellow velo]

More like a cross between Lou Costello & Kevin James:

[imjimbo]

I find it amazing that the Left actually thinks they can convince us she’s moderate. They act as if the are the only news sources again-!! Must be wishful delusion-!

[Renderofveils]

Typical MSM misdirection. They want us to think she’s not a rubber stamp for Obama on social issues. I guarantee Obama would not have nominated her if he had any doubt whatsoever. The Times surely knows this but they push this pablum anyway to fool the foolable.

The spin is not for conservatives. The spin is for "moderate" Dims that only get their news from the television and don't care enough to actually read what's going on in politics; the ones that look you in the face after spouting a Dim talking point and follow it up with "...but I really don't care about politics." The media knows they can't fool conservatives. They're trying to sooth the apathy crowd.

[Steven Tyler]

How about we pass on investigating if she is gay, and her abortion stance.
Let’s focus on her radical leftist mindset

[Son House]

Yep, any leftist dribble that comes from this bench should call for impeachment, and be personally delivered to any supporting confirmation vote by Democrats and RINO’s for explanation and Congressional resignation. Given a specific case, one could easily guess the justification of wrong to be written, though other times it will be a surprise of pure stupidity

[arthurus]

Who could there possibly be that does not know that any nominee of the Kenyan will be pro-abortion? perhaps of a mind to go along with mandatory abortion.

[Theodore R.]

There is no doubt about her position on anything. I wish we could say that about our Republican nominees.

[Titus-Maximus]

We are one vote away from every privately held gun to be taken away.

We are one vote away from the complete Stalinist eradication of every Christian symbol from public life.

We are one vote away from the insane notion that the Constitution guarantees full and complete health care, a home and a job to everyone who wants one.

We are one vote away from the forced governmental dismantling of the First Amendment, through every medium including the internet and the radio.

We are one vote away from New Haven Fire Fighters becoming the law of the land, when your child’s grades, years of study, and hard work are thrown down the sewer of political correctness if the racial outcome does not meet the pyscho-left’s definition of racial equality.

We are one vote away from the eradication of property rights.

We are one vote away from the takeover of private industry by the government.

We are one vote away from mandated sterilizations and the decree that humans and their breath are a form of pollution.

We are one vote away from Big Brother - just one, and they will not relent because these appointments are of a very extremist nature with a leftist political agenda. They mean to change America through the will of leftist judges - and not through the ballot box because their ideology is rejected.

Our sacred Bill of Rights will be gone. The power of the State will not be stopped.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

The freaks are in charge. You can see why people like alex jones have so much success.

Aliens & weird conspiracies are more reasonable than the idea that the freaks & running the sideshow by themselves.

[Liberty Valance]

This is a silly article. Is there any doubt where this old socialist stands on abortion? Of course not.

You are exactly right ... The LA Times is practicing the exact opposite of journalism ... in this case, obfuscation.

[Godwin1]

What nonsense! A secular Jew , raised on the West Side of Manhattan? A prof at the University of Chicago? A Dean at Harvard Law?
With this profile, infanticide is one of her core values: she believes in abortion for any reason or no reason through
all nine months of gestation. She also believes that women who want to have abortionists kill their children have a “right” to have taxpayers pay for it. And she will believe, as Obama does, that health care workers have no or very limited conscience rights if they wish to refrain from being accessories to the murder of the unborn.
We have a president who endorses killing the tiny, defenseless,survivors of botched abortions as they writhe in pain on the operating tables. Do you think he would select a justice less bloodthirsty and callous then he is?

[Tribune7]

I’m not wondering.

[Outlaw Woman]

Oh please, both sides guessing? Come on...she is for butchering babies, tearing them limb from limb. Both sides guessing...Just look at the woman’s background and those that she holds in high regard.

Sometimes I wonder how these people get paid for writing. I want that job and I want to be paid for it too.

[wastedpotential]

This story is a smoke screen to try and soften any resistance to her nomination, nothing else.

[2harddrive]

Has she admitted her lesbianism yet?

[airborne]

Oh please!

The Dems know she's a socialist, cut from the same cloth as Obama.

And all the Republicans in Congress combined don't have enough vertebrae to make one spinal cord.

This b!#@h is going to be the next nail the Obama Regime drives into America's coffin.

[rdl6989]

The media outed her then retracted it. I don’t think anybody has any doubts she is.