ALITO and ABORTION

http://www.covenantnews.com/abortion/archives/016025.html

Judge Alito Is Besmirched With the Blood of Babies, He Approved Killing Children By Abortion in Three Federal Cases

The word "abortion" appears in 22 decisions in which Judge Alito participated in his 15 years on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia, according to searches of legal databases. Judge Alito voted in support of the abortion rights side of the argument in three cases. In 1997, he joined a decision applying the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which established a constitutional right to abortion, to uphold a New Jersey law that let parents sue on behalf of deceased children but not deceased unborn children. In 2000, he joined a decision applying Stenberg v. Carhart - another 2000 decision that struck down a Nebraska law that banned a procedure its critics call partial-birth abortion - to a similar New Jersey law. In 1995, he cast the deciding vote in a 2-to-1 decision striking down parts of a Pennsylvania law that restricted abortion. The law, the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act, included a provision that required a doctor's certification in cases in which a publicly funded abortion was being performed because the woman's life was said to be in danger.

Alito Supported Abortion In Three Cases

http://www.covenantnews.com/newswire/archives/015998.

htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/politics/02abortion.html

'Sam is not going to overturn Roe'

http://www.covenantnews.com/newswire/archives/016030.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/03/ap/politics/mainD8DKT7C0A.shtmlshtml

TG: I could've told you that the minute Bush nominated him (in fact I probably did) - but it's nice to have some confirming voices.

Alito Conformation Process:

WASHINGTON -- Five current or former judges on the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals interviewed by The Associated Press described Alito as thoughtful, intelligent and fair. They said he has great respect for precedent-setting decisions and none of them offered that he would be likely to vote to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. Senior Judge Leonard Garth, a Nixon appointee for whom Alito served as law clerk from 1976-77 before they became colleagues in 1990, said, "Sam is not going to overturn Roe v. Wade," said Garth, a moderate conservative who signed on to a 2000 abortion-rights decision involving a procedure foes call "partial-birth" abortion that Alito criticized as too expansive.