The Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation is joining with National Right to Life in opposing the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the office of Associate Justice of the
“It is clear that Ms. Kagan would be a judicial activist who would read things into the Constitution that simply aren’t there,” said Michael Ciccocioppo, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, the
Kagan’s writings clearly indicate that, rather than simply interpreting the law, she would work as a Justice to impose public policy from the bench. In fact, in a thesis, Kagan wrote that it “is not necessarily wrong or invalid” for judges “to mold and steer the law in order to promote certain ethical values and achieve certain social ends.”
White House documents indicate that Kagan was a leading strategist in blocking the enactment of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban during the Clinton Administration. As a result, Kagan was instrumental in keeping the heinous partial-birth abortion procedure legal for an additional decade.
Furthermore, Kagan viewed it a “terrible idea” to prevent doctors in
In 1995, Kagan opined that “it should be no surprise by now that many of the votes a Supreme Court Justice casts have little to do with technical legal ability and much to do with conceptions of value.”
In Roe v. Wade, the High Court made the tragic mistake of imposing its own questionable values upon the nation, resulting in the deaths of more than 50 million preborn children and the devastation of countless numbers of women, who grieve those children to this day. Given the fact that Kagan’s brand of judicial activism would impose even more damage on the nation, the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation must strongly oppose her confirmation.