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Senate Democrats and abortion-rights advocates in the jammed hearing room were dismayed when Souter dodged all questions that might tip his hand on abortion. "It is deeply troubling that Judge Souter has refused to address the reasoning and legal approach to the fundamental right of privacy," complained Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League...
...what questions it is appropriate for the Senate to ask him when his confirmation hearing gets under way. Pro-choice groups were already pushing last week for a full inquiry into Souter's philosophy. "Our whole focus now is to ensure ((that the necessary)) questions are asked," says Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League. In the end, says Kathleen Sullivan, a law professor at Harvard, "the Senate can probe as much as it wants; Souter is entitled to stonewall as much as he wants...
...Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League, said the "use of rhetoric commonly used by anti-choice extremists is profoundly alarming." She called anew for tough questions on the abortion issue during confirmation hearings...
...CHOICE and civil rights groups, of course, are urging the Senate to block Souter's nomination if he won't go on the record supporting abortion rights or affirmative action. But pressuring Souter about abortion, as leading pro-choice activist Kate Michelman asked in a statement yesterday, will not defeat the nomination: if anything, it will play right into the bandit's hands...
Whatever the political costs, activists on each side of the abortion debate have vowed to battle it out, somehow assured they can win over the middle. NARAL's Michelman is determined to convince the public that parental-consent laws are a sham. Pro-life and pro-choice forces in Congress pledge to wage the fight over funds for rape and incest victims again and again, every time Boxer or her allies attach a rider to a bill. "We'll debate this till we're blue in the face, and there will be blood all over the chamber," says Hyde...