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...angry complaint of Mrs. Connaught Marshner, head of the National Pro-Family Coalition, at a Washington press conference, where luminaries of the New Right launched an all-out attack on Ronald Reagan's first nominee to the Supreme Court. Armed with accusations against Sandra O'Connor's record in the Arizona state senate-some of them gleaned from records, others based on insinuation and surmise-the critics charged that she is soft on touchstone social problems like abortion...
None of the charges have anything to do with O'Connor's suitability for a seat on the Supreme Court; by the standards of the New Right the seven Justices who recognized the constitutional right to an abortion in the 1973 Roe vs. Wade case would be disqualified for their decision. Moreover, it is unlikely that the New Right accusations will influence many Senators...
...Right's complaints against O'Connor center on four issues...
Abortion. Right-to-lifers have attacked O'Connor for votes she cast as a state legislator on several separate bills. In 1973 she co-sponsored a measure that would make "all medically acceptable family-planning methods and information" available to anyone who wanted...
...vote of the Arizona senate's judiciary committee the following year, O'Connor reportedly opposed a "right-to-life memorial" that called upon Congress to extend constitutional protection to unborn babies, except where the pregnant mother's life was at stake. Also in 1974, she opposed a University of Arizona stadium bond issue after a rider had been attached banning state abortion funding to the university hospital...