RSSThe Gruesome Commitment of Elena Kagan Part Two
Gene Lalor | July 27, 2010
Commitment can often be an admirable feature of one’s life and character. It denotes absolute dedication, strong and unshakeable beliefs, and an admirable steadfastness.
However, when that commitment leads one down the road of “disgraceful” and “unethical” conduct, words used by former Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, to describe the actions of Solicitor General and Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, commitment becomes a markedly negative trait.
As a radical leftist–and the president has a constitutional right to nominate such a person no matter what damage she can ultimately wreak–Ms. Kagan no doubt is committed to any number of causes. Hopefully she does not lie and dissemble to accomplish her goals with respect to those causes as she did with her commitment to the gruesome practice of partial birth abortion.
Medically described as intact dilation and extraction or intact D & X, partial birth abortion involves the barbaric execution of what is often a fully-formed, intact, baby by dilating the uterus of a mother-to-be and extracting said baby. That clinical description avoids the methods of the barbarism, the details of the “extraction.”
Briefly, following dilation, the partial birth abortionist uses forceps to grab the legs of a six, seven, eight, or nine month old fetus, pulls it into the birth canal and delivers the viable infant, except for its head. Scisssors are then plunged into the baby’s skull and opened to enlarge the hole. A suction catheter is inserted into the skull which literally sucks the baby’s brains out, collapsing the skull, and the dead baby is then extracted.
As gory as that procedure is, Elena Kagan is not the only individual who endorses its use. (President Barack Obama is another.) She is, though, the only individual who purposefully altered and manipulated a policy statement issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, ACOG, in order to misrepresent that statement to serve her “commitment.”
It all happened in 1996 when Kagan was associate counsel in the Clinton White House and she got hold of a preliminary copy of that ACOG statement.
The section that didn’t meet with her approval read, “[A] select panel convened by ACOG could identify no circumstances under which [the partial-birth] procedure . . . would be the only option to save the life or preserve the health of the woman.”
That finding would undercut the entire campaign of the pro-abortion lobby to make partial birth abortions legal so Associate Counsel Kagan felt she had to come to the rescue of the pro-abortionists.
Clinton Library files reveal she did alter the ACOG statement and she admitted in her Senate testimony that she did, except that she said she merely “suggested” a change in the ACOG language.
That amendment read, “An intact D&X, however, may be the best or most appropriate procedure in a particular circumstance to save the life or preserve the health of a woman,” which was a clear contradiction of the ACOG finding.
Nevertheless, after meetings with Kagan, the ACOG bowed to White House pressure and incorporated the Kagan language, the lie, in its statement issued in 1997.
For complete details on the Kagan-Abortion Affair, see the source here: http://tiny.cc/rmaf4
As they say, the rest is history. The Supreme Court cited Kagan’s words in striking down Nebraska’s ban on partial birth abortion and Kagan’s amending words may have inspired Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s initial support for the procedure.
Kagan’s actions may have made her a heroine to the abortion lobby but they also inspired C. Everett Koop to condemn her “disgraceful” and “unethical” conduct which disqualified her for the Supreme Court.
I’m guessing Kagan’s conduct and Koop’s condemnation will have as much an effect on Democrats in the Senate as a baby’s begging for its life on an abortionist’s table.
Contributor's website: http://www.genelalor.com/
The Gruesome Commitment of Elena Kagan Part Two
Gene Lalor | July 27, 2010
Commitment can often be an admirable feature of one’s life and character. It denotes absolute dedication, strong and unshakeable beliefs, and an admirable steadfastness.
However, when that commitment leads one down the road of “disgraceful” and “unethical” conduct, words used by former Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, to describe the actions of Solicitor General and Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, commitment becomes a markedly negative trait.
As a radical leftist–and the president has a constitutional right to nominate such a person no matter what damage she can ultimately wreak–Ms. Kagan no doubt is committed to any number of causes. Hopefully she does not lie and dissemble to accomplish her goals with respect to those causes as she did with her commitment to the gruesome practice of partial birth abortion.
Medically described as intact dilation and extraction or intact D & X, partial birth abortion involves the barbaric execution of what is often a fully-formed, intact, baby by dilating the uterus of a mother-to-be and extracting said baby. That clinical description avoids the methods of the barbarism, the details of the “extraction.”
Briefly, following dilation, the partial birth abortionist uses forceps to grab the legs of a six, seven, eight, or nine month old fetus, pulls it into the birth canal and delivers the viable infant, except for its head. Scisssors are then plunged into the baby’s skull and opened to enlarge the hole. A suction catheter is inserted into the skull which literally sucks the baby’s brains out, collapsing the skull, and the dead baby is then extracted.
As gory as that procedure is, Elena Kagan is not the only individual who endorses its use. (President Barack Obama is another.) She is, though, the only individual who purposefully altered and manipulated a policy statement issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, ACOG, in order to misrepresent that statement to serve her “commitment.”
It all happened in 1996 when Kagan was associate counsel in the Clinton White House and she got hold of a preliminary copy of that ACOG statement.
The section that didn’t meet with her approval read, “[A] select panel convened by ACOG could identify no circumstances under which [the partial-birth] procedure . . . would be the only option to save the life or preserve the health of the woman.”
That finding would undercut the entire campaign of the pro-abortion lobby to make partial birth abortions legal so Associate Counsel Kagan felt she had to come to the rescue of the pro-abortionists.
Clinton Library files reveal she did alter the ACOG statement and she admitted in her Senate testimony that she did, except that she said she merely “suggested” a change in the ACOG language.
That amendment read, “An intact D&X, however, may be the best or most appropriate procedure in a particular circumstance to save the life or preserve the health of a woman,” which was a clear contradiction of the ACOG finding.
Nevertheless, after meetings with Kagan, the ACOG bowed to White House pressure and incorporated the Kagan language, the lie, in its statement issued in 1997.
For complete details on the Kagan-Abortion Affair, see the source here: http://tiny.cc/rmaf4
As they say, the rest is history. The Supreme Court cited Kagan’s words in striking down Nebraska’s ban on partial birth abortion and Kagan’s amending words may have inspired Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s initial support for the procedure.
Kagan’s actions may have made her a heroine to the abortion lobby but they also inspired C. Everett Koop to condemn her “disgraceful” and “unethical” conduct which disqualified her for the Supreme Court.
I’m guessing Kagan’s conduct and Koop’s condemnation will have as much an effect on Democrats in the Senate as a baby’s begging for its life on an abortionist’s table.
Contributor's website: http://www.genelalor.com/
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