Roberts Wrote in 1985 That Memorial for Fetuses Was Good Way to Draw

[steve2470]

Attention to "abortion Tragedy" (rest of headline)

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBXC4S5GCE.html


WASHINGTON (AP) - As a young lawyer in the Reagan White House, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts concluded that a group's memorial service for aborted fetuses was "an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy."

Roberts' wrote the advice in an October, 1985 memo after he was asked to review a proposed telegram from President Reagan to the memorial service promoted by the California Pro Life Medical Association.

"The president's position is that the fetuses were human beings, or at least cannot be proven not to have been, and accordingly a memorial service would seem an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy," wrote Roberts.

Roberts, during his confirmation hearing to be a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, had referred to Roe v. Wade, the case that legalized abortion in the United States, as "settled law." Senate Democrats have been aggressively seeking the nominee's innermost thoughts on the 1973 abortion ruling by the Supreme Court, and the documents released Tuesday shed more light on it.

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[ComerPerro]

1. A neocon might contend that fetuses are human beings, "troops" are not

"troops" are just that, apparently. "Troops". Not people.

Everywhere I look I see some FReeper or neocon freak taking all blame from Bush by saying something like, "Well, that's what happens in war. People die. Its normal. Get over it".

These people allegedly show more compassion for aborted fetuses, eggs and sperm than they do for young men and women who died defending America from the terrorists.