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The Pro-Choice activist group NARAL has come out attacking John Roberts.  They are issue specific in this attack:

NARAL Pro-Choice America, the nation€™s leading advocate for personal privacy and a woman€™s right to choose, launched a nationwide television ad campaign drawing attention to one of the most disturbing episodes in Supreme Court nominee John Roberts€™ career € the brief he filed siding with groups like Operation Rescue and other anti-choice extremists who use bombings and other forms of intimidation against women, doctors, and nurses at women’s health clinics.

You can see their ad on that link above.  Factcheck.org looked at this ad specifically and drew their own disturbing conclusion.  They came to exactly the same conclusion I did:

The ad is totally false to the point of being intentionally misleading ( lying ).

And the ad misleads when it says Roberts supported a clinic bomber. It is true that Roberts sided with the bomber and many other defendants in a civil case, but the case didn’t deal with bombing at all. Roberts argued that abortion clinics who brought the suit had no right use an 1871 federal anti-discrimination statute against anti-abortion protesters who tried to blockade clinics. Eventually a 6-3 majority of the Supreme Court agreed, too. Roberts argued that blockades were already illegal under state law…..

To the contrary, during the Reagan administration when he was Associate Counsel to the President, Roberts drafted a memo saying abortion-clinic bombers "should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law." In the 1986 memo, Roberts called abortion bombers "criminals" and "misguided individuals," indicating that they would get no special treatment regarding requests for presidential pardons. Reagan in fact gave no pardons to abortion-clinic bombers.

Gotta keep an eye on these issue oriented activist groups.  Think this is just some honest oversight on NARAL’s part?  Think again.  Here’s their political activity during the 2006 political cycle:

House Candidate Total Contribs Bean, Melissa Luburich (D-IL) $5,000 Blumenauer, Earl (D-OR) $2,500 Boucher, Rick (D-VA) $5,000 Carnahan, Russ (D-MO) $5,000 DeFazio, Peter (D-OR) $2,500 Doggett, Lloyd (D-TX) $2,500 Grijalva, Raul M (D-AZ) $2,500 Herseth, Stephanie (D-SD) $5,000 Higgins, Brian M (D-NY) $4,000 Johnson, Nancy L (R-CT) $1,000 Matsui, Doris (D-CA) $2,500 Schultz, Debbie Wasserman (D-FL) $5,000 Schwartz, Allyson (D-PA) $5,000 Simmons, Rob (R-CT) $10,000 Woolsey, Lynn (D-CA) $2,500 Total to Democratic House Candidates: $49,000 Total to Republican House Candidates: $11,000 Senate Candidate Total Contribs Akaka, Daniel K (D-HI) $5,000 Chafee, Lincoln D (R-RI) $10,000 Kennedy, Edward M (D-MA) $5,000 Total to Democratic Senate Candidates: $10,000 Total to Republican Senate Candidates: $10,000

And here’s their political activity during the 2004 cycle:

House Candidate Total Contribs Alben, Alex (D-WA) $1,500 Babbitt, Paul (D-AZ) $5,000 Baldwin, Tammy (D-WI) $2,000 Barbieri, Donald K (D-WA) $5,000 Barrow, John (D-GA) $10,000 Bean, Melissa Luburich (D-IL) $5,000 Bell, Chris (D-TX) $5,000 Berkley, Shelley (D-NV) $2,000 Bishop, Timothy H (D-NY) $10,000 Boucher, Rick (D-VA) $10,000 Broomfield, Charles S (D-MO) $5,000 Brown, Sherrod (D-OH) $1,500 Brozak, Stephen G (D-NJ) $2,500 Capps, Lois (D-CA) $1,500 Carnahan, Russ (D-MO) $5,000 Clay, William L Jr (D-MO) $2,000 Cleaver, Emanuel (D-MO) $5,000 Conti, Joanna (D-CO) $5,000 Conyers, John Jr (D-MI) $2,000 Costa, Jim (D-CA) $1,500 Daly, Teresa Ann (D-MN) $2,500 DeGette, Diana (D-CO) $7,500 DeLauro, Rosa L (D-CT) $1,500 Doggett, Lloyd (D-TX) $5,000 Emanuel, Rahm (D-IL) $2,000 Evans, Lane (D-IL) $2,500 Farrell, Diane Goss (D-CT) $5,000 Free, Kalyn Cherie (D-OK) $5,000 Frost, Martin (D-TX) $5,000 Gallagher, Tom (D-NV) $1,500 Grijalva, Raul M (D-AZ) $2,000 Herseth, Stephanie (D-SD) $15,000 Higgins, Brian M (D-NY) $1,500 Holt, Rush (D-NJ) $2,000 Hooley, Darlene (D-OR) $10,000 Johnson, Nancy L (R-CT) $3,000 Keever, Patricia (D-NC) $6,500 Kucinich, Dennis J (D-OH) $1,500 Lantos, Tom (D-CA) $5,000 Larsen, Rick (D-WA) $10,000 Lee, Barbara (D-CA) $1,500 Lofgren, Zoe (D-CA) $1,000 Lowey, Nita M (D-NY) $2,000 Matsui, Robert T (D-CA) $2,000 Matsunaka, Stan (D-CO) $10,000 McCarthy, Carolyn (D-NY) $2,500 McCollum, Betty (D-MN) $1,000 Menendez, Robert (D-NJ) $2,000 Moore, Gwen (D-WI) $10,000 Moran, Jim (D-VA) $5,000 Murphy, Lois (D-PA) $10,000 Nadler, Jerrold (D-NY) $1,000 Norton, Eleanor Holmes (D-DC) $1,500 Pastor, Ed (D-AZ) $1,000 Pelosi, Nancy (D-CA) $5,000 Quigley, Lisa (D-CA) $5,000 Rodriguez, Ciro D (D-TX) $5,000 Romero, Richard M (D-NM) $10,000 Rothman, Steven R (D-NJ) $500 Roybal-Allard, Lucille (D-CA) $1,000 Rush, Bobby L (D-IL) $2,000 Sanchez, Linda (D-CA) $1,000 Sanchez, Loretta (D-CA) $1,000 Schakowsky, Jan (D-IL) $2,000 Schrader, Virginia Waters (D-PA) $5,000 Schultz, Debbie Wasserman (D-FL) $10,000 Schwartz, Allyson (D-PA) $10,000 Scott, Robert C (D-VA) $5,000 Simmons, Rob (R-CT) $7,000 Slaughter, Louise M (D-NY) $2,000 Solis, Hilda L (D-CA) $2,000 Thomas, David Jeffrey (D-CO) $8,000 Thompson, Bennie G (D-MS) $1,000 Van Hollen, Chris (D-MD) $2,000 Wetterling, Patty (D-MN) $6,500 Wexler, Robert (D-FL) $500 Wu, David (D-OR) $10,000 Total to Democratic House Candidates: $322,500 Total to Republican House Candidates: $10,000 Senate Candidate Total Contribs Bowles, Erskine B (D-NC) $10,000 Boxer, Barbara (D-CA) $4,000 Castor, Betty (D-FL) $10,000 Clinton, Hillary Rodham (D-NY) $750 Dodd, Chris (D-CT) $1,000 Farmer, Nancy (D-MO) $10,000 Feingold, Russell D (D-WI) $9,000 Fingerhut, Eric D (D-OH) $2,500 Hoeffel, Joseph M (D-PA) $10,000 Kennedy, Edward M (D-MA) $5,000 Knowles, Tony (D-AK) $10,000 Majette, Denise L (D-GA) $10,000 Mikulski, Barbara A (D-MD) $4,000 Murray, Patty (D-WA) $9,500 Obama, Barack (D-IL) $10,000 Wyden, Ron (D-OR) $2,500 Total to Democratic Senate Candidates: $108,250 Total to Republican Senate Candidates: $0

NARAL donates 98% to Democrats.  Still think they are issue oriented?  This slanderous attack on John Roberts should come as no surprise.  Even though Roberts considers clinic bombers criminals, he’s Bush’s man.  That alone makes him a target of NARAL. 

That’s all anyone really needs to know.

*** Disclaimer: Although Republican, I am pro-choice. ***

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