Americans United for Life Sends Letter to Senator Leahy on Souter Vacancy

Letter to Senator Leahy on Souter Vacancy

The following letter to Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was released on Monday.

May 4, 2009

The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy

United States Senate

Committee on the Judiciary

224 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510

Dear Senator Leahy:

We understand that Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, David Souter will retire at the end of the Court’s current term. The President will soon send to the United States Senate a nominee to our highest court.

Americans United for Life is a public-interest law and policy organization whose vision is a nation in which everyone is welcomed in life and protected in law. We will oppose any nominee to the Court who believes social activism trumps interpreting the Constitution…

Letter at the jump.

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Talking smart about Obama’s Supreme Court pick

Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, sent a letter to Senate Democrat Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy yesterday that was pretty brilliant….

Recall President Abortion indicated during the campaign he admired Supreme Court justices Stephen Breyer and David Souter. Both are so fanatically pro-abortion they voted twice (2000 and 2007) against the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, meaning Obama supports Supremes so entrenched they will even support a barbaric abortion procedure killing a half-born baby contrary to the will of the people, since 30 states had passed PBA bans by 2000.

Of course. Obama himself opposed the PBA Ban and also infamously stated during the campaign his primary focus as president would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would overturn every local, state, and federal restriction made against abortion in the past 36 years….

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Pro-Life, Pro-Abortion Groups Look to Coming Battle Over Supreme Court Pick, by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor,

Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life, promised her group would help lead the charge against any pro-abortion activist Obama may name to the high court.

Baptist Press on Americans United for Life.

May 4, 2009

The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy

United States Senate

Committee on the Judiciary

224 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510

Dear Senator Leahy:

We understand that Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, David Souter will retire at the end of the Court’s current term. The President will soon send to the United States Senate a nominee to our highest court.

Americans United for Life is a public-interest law and policy organization whose vision is a nation in which everyone is welcomed in life and protected in law. We will oppose any nominee to the Court who believes social activism trumps interpreting the Constitution.

The Constitutionally-protected right to self-government is threatened when judges arrogate to themselves the legislature’s power to craft public policy. The most important question a nominee for the Supreme Court must answer is to articulate their judicial philosophy: will they advance an agenda that limits the right of the people to determine the content of abortion-related laws through the democratic process?

The President has expressed a public commitment to reducing the frequency of abortion in the United States. Appointing a nominee who intends to read the Freedom of Choice Act into the Constitution will undermine that objective, increase the number of abortions nationwide, and further disenfranchise millions of Americans who want to settle this issue through the democratic process.

Furthermore, elevating abortion to a fundamental right on the same plane as the freedom of speech would void common-sense abortion regulations that the vast majority of Americans support, like the prohibition on partial-birth abortion. Such a move would also require taxpayer funding of abortion, eliminate informed consent and parental notice and consent laws, state requirements that abortions be done only by physicians, and more. A judicial nominee who intends to pursue such a radical agenda should be summarily rejected by the Senate.

In the days ahead, we look to our Senators to uphold their duty to raise serious questions on the nominee’s judicial philosophy and reject any nominee who places personal preference over upholding the Constitution.

Sincerely,

[signed]

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.

President and CEO

PDF here.