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Providence, RI — Rhode Island Right to Life (RIRTL) strongly opposes the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the office of Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) has carefully studied various memoranda and other material written by Ms. Kagan during her tenure on the White House staff of President Bill Clinton (1995-1999), as well as other writings and actions by Ms. Kagan as a clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, as an academic, and as Solicitor General of the United States. Their analysis can be found at http://www.nrlc.org/Judicial/NRLCletterToSenateOnKaganJune232010.pdf

The White House documents reveal Ms. Kagan to have been a key strategist – perhaps, indeed, the lead strategist within the White House – in the successful effort to prevent enactment of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act during the Clinton Administration. The Kagan-backed strategy did, in fact, prevent enactment of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act during the Clinton Administration. Ms. Kagan played a key role in keeping the brutal partial-birth abortion method legal for an additional decade.

Moreover, soon after the first cloned human mammal (Dolly the sheep) was created in 1996, Ms. Kagan defended the position that the creation of human embryos by cloning should be allowed, as long as the embryos were used as research subjects and not allowed to develop to birth (a policy that in later years came to be known as “clone and kill”).

And in 1998, Ms. Kagan addressed the question of whether physicians in Oregon should be prevented by federal law from using federally controlled drugs in the practice of assisted suicide. Ms. Kagan opined that federal legislation would be a “terrible idea.”

According to RIRTL Executive Director Barth E. Bracy, “Ms. Kagan’s statements and actions indicate that she is radically opposed to even modest attempts to protect innocent human life. And her professional history paints a picture of a social engineer rather than an impartial arbiter of justice.”

About Rhode Island Right to Life: Rhode Island Right to Life was founded in 1970 with the mission to advocate for a state, nation and world in which the innocent lives of the unborn, the disabled, the elderly and the ill are valued by the citizenry and protected by civil law. RI Right to Life lobbies for legislation that advances the cause of the sanctity of human life at both the state and federal levels. RI Right to Life is the state affiliate of the National Right to Life committee.

Barth E. Bracy, Executive Director
Office: 401.521.1860 / Mobile: 401.225.8646

Press Release: Rhode Island Right to Life Committee