Pro-Life Group Says Kagan Gave Incomplete Abortion Testimony, Wants Probe

An interesting story from www.lifenews.com about the incomplete Kagan testimony. This follows this previous post about Elena Kagan's Supreme Court testimony. This follows this post about the June 28,2010 Supreme Court ruling on Christian organizations. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.

Pro-Life Group Says Kagan Gave Incomplete Abortion Testimony, Wants ProbeWashington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A national pro-life legal group that has been closely monitoring the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Elena Kagan is calling for a Senate investigation. Americans United for Life says Kagan was not forthcoming during her testimony in telling lawmakers how she lobbied two organizations to change their opinion.
Kagan is under fire for pressuring the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to change its opinion on a ban on partial-birth abortions.
She wrote a memo as a member of the Clinton administration seeking to alter the opinion of ACOG's medical experts who determined that there is never an instance in which the abortion procedure is necessary to protect the health of a woman.
But AUL says the Senate must investigate a "discrepancy" in Kagan's testimony during the Supreme Court nominee's Judiciary Committee hearing before taking further action on her nomination.
AUL says the problem is Kagan did not divulge how she also pressured the American Medical Association to alter its opinion that partial-birth abortions are medically unnecessary.
"The American people deserve to have all of the facts before their representatives consider a lifetime appointment to the nation’s highest court," Americans United for Life president Charmaine Yoest said in an email to LifeNews.com. "Evidence from Kagan’s time in the White House indicates that she may have been more involved in lobbying medical groups on partial-birth abortion than she admitted [Wednesday] under oath."
Kagan was questioned about those 1996 memos during Wednesday's confirmation hearing by Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican who said he was "stunned by what appears to be a real politicization of science." Full story at LifeNews.com