National Right To Life Takes On Illinois Senator Dick Dirtbag

From the National Right to Life web site:

National Right to Life radio ad raises question:
How can Senator Durbin -- who as a congressman wanted Roe v. Wade overturned -- now "disqualify" John Roberts?

This release from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) is issued at 8:30 AM EDT on Monday, September 12, 2005. For further information, contact NRLC at 202-626-8825 or 202-626-8820, send e-mail to Legfederal@aol.com, or visit the NRLC website at http://www.nrlc.org/Judicial/Durbin/index.html

WASHINGTON (Sept. 12, 2005) -- A new broadcast ad sponsored by National Right to Life, launched today in eight cities in Illinois (13 radio stations), suggests that Senator Dick Durbin [ED: a.k.a. "Dick Dirtbag"] of Illinois, a Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is being unfair in suggesting that Supreme Court nominee John Roberts might be disqualified if Roberts does not accept the legal theory of Roe v. Wade -- even though Durbin himself strongly advocated overturning Roe v. Wade when he was a member of the House of Representatives.

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The ad presents a dialogue between two fictional constituents, one of whom notes that Durbin has indicated that he may regard Roberts as disqualified from sitting on the Supreme Court if he will not endorse certain past Supreme Court decisions.

(In a July 24 interview with NBC News' Tim Russert, Durbin said that Roberts would be "disqualified" if he did not accept the Supreme Court's doctrine on the "right of privacy," and that "it would trouble me greatly" if he thought Roberts might allow state legislatures to restrict abortion.)

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... Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), the second-ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter about abortion in 1971 in which he said, "... it is my personal feeling that the legalization of abortion on demand is not in accordance with the value which our civilization places on human life. Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized -- the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grow old ... once life has begun, no matter at what stage of growth, it is my belief that termination should not be decided merely by desire... When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough ... to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception."

Moreover, Senator Joseph Biden (D-De.), the third-ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, voted in favor of a constitutional amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade (the Hatch Amendment) in 1982.

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