Kagan Asked About Memo Changing Statement on Partial-Birth Abortion

[juliee]

Kagan Asked About Memo Changing Statement on Partial-Birth Abortion

Washington, DC – Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan faced questions today about a memorandum she wrote during her time in the Clinton administration. The memo has Kagan altering the opinion of a major medical organization on partial-birth abortion, which it said was never medically necessary.

The memo is particularly concerning because it has her changing the opinion of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which said it found no medical reason for a woman to have a partial-birth abortion.

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[JimG]

ACOG (the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) had a panel which initially said that it “could find no medical reason why the partial-birth abortion procedure would ever be used to protect a woman’s life or health.”

That would have been detrimental to the Clinton administration’s position on partial birth abortion.

Kagan’s memo suggested alternative language for the ACOG statement, including the phrase–her phrase–that the late abortion procedure “may be the best or most appropriate procedure in a particular circumstance to save the life or preserve the health of a woman.”

That’s the phrase that made it into the final ACOG document. Apparently a little White House pressure can work wonders.