In another instance, candidate Miers agreed to sit down with a group of abortion rights activists. Operation Rescue was staging regular protests at area abortion clinics, and the group of about 10 women who met with Miers wanted to know whether she supported a 1985 city ordinance that protected patients from harassment. Four of the women in attendance said in interviews that Miers was immovable.
"She said, well, I'm sorry, it's murder, and that's that," said Joy Mankoff, founder of a local women's political action network. "There was no room for any discussion."
Although the women left the meeting convinced that Miers was completely opposed to abortion rights, one, liberal lawyer Louise B. Raggio, continued to support Miers and still does. Miers, for her part, has raised money to promote a lecture series on women's issues bearing Raggio's name. The first speaker was feminist Gloria Steinem.
"The abortion issue is a bad issue for me," Raggio acknowledged, "but overall you look at the whole, and there are many issues I could agree with her on."
"She said, well, I'm sorry, it's murder, and that's that."
Not somethin' you'll hear from Souter, Ginsburg, et al.
Minority rights is another important issue. Poor blacks and the unborn both represent the weak. What impressed me in this article is her proclivity toward right regardless of political ramifications.
I was undecided, but am becoming more impressed with her the more I read.
Or maybe Miers is neither Left nor Right, but just right?
I don't like the Aff. Action comments, though. Not at all. And I'm a supporter of Miers.