BUSH CAVES TO RIGHT WING, NOMINATES ALITO FOR O’CONNOR’S SEAT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 31, 2005
BUSH CAVES TO RIGHT WING, NOMINATES ALITO FOR O’CONNOR’S SEAT
(St. Louis, MO) -- NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri denounced the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito, Jr. to the Supreme Court. Alito was the only dissenting judge in the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey when he was a judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Alito voted that a married woman should have to notify her husband if she sought an abortion. The Supreme Court struck the husband-notification provision.
“President Bush, caving in entirely to the militant right wing of his party, has nominated for the seat of Sandra Day O’Connor—the moderate, swing vote on the Court—a man whose nickname is Scalito,” said Pamela Sumners, Executive Director of NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri. “How much hope does that give you for the future of any civil rights issue?”
Sumners accused the president of “pandering to his right-wing base in hopes that the resulting condemnation of organizations like NARAL would make people forget about Katrina and indictments in his administration. It’s a shame that any president would use the Supreme Court as cover for a temporary problem in the opinion polls.”
Contact: Pamela Sumners, Executive Director 314-531-8616 or 312-213-1725
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