The Leftist Media Takes On Mrs. Roberts

Hat tip: Southern Appeal

From the Los Angeles Times:

BUSH'S SUPREME COURT NOMINEE
Wife of Nominee Holds Strong Antiabortion Views

By Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — While Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s views on abortion triggered intense debate on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, there is no mistaking where his wife stands: Jane Sullivan Roberts, a lawyer, is ardently against abortion.

A Roman Catholic like her husband, Jane Roberts has been deeply involved in the antiabortion movement. She provides her name, money and professional advice to a small Washington organization — Feminists for Life of America — that offers counseling and educational programs. The group has filed legal briefs before the high court challenging the constitutionality of abortion.

A spouse's views normally are not considered relevant in weighing someone's job suitability. But abortion is likely to figure prominently in the Senate debate over John Roberts' nomination. And with his position on the issue unclear, abortion rights supporters expressed concern Wednesday that his wife's views might suggest he also embraced efforts to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

"It's unclear how all this will affect her husband," said Jennifer Palmieri, a spokeswoman with the Center for American Progress, a liberal public policy group. "It's possible that he would have a different view than her. It's just that in the absence of information about this guy, people are looking at her and trying to read the tea leaves."

Asked to discuss her role with Feminists for Life, Jane Roberts said in an e-mail to the Los Angeles Times: "Thanks for your inquiry. At this time, however, I would like to decline your invitation to talk."

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The Washington Post has a similar story today on Mrs. Roberts.

My Comments:
The radical feminists in the pro-abortion movement can't have it both ways: they can't claim on the one hand that a woman has an existence separate and apart from her husband, and then claim on the other hand that the views and activities of Mrs. Roberts must be attributed to Judge Roberts.*

They wouldn't be that hypocritical, would they? (see, e.g., Bill Clinton)

*That being said, I think there are plenty on the right who are hoping that the views and activities of Mrs. Roberts do give us some indication of how Judge Roberts will rule.