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New GOP jitters over Miers nomination
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| Last Edited | RP Oct 26, 2005 08:45pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, October 26, 2005 09:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The mystery over what Supreme Court Harriet Miers believes deepened Wednesday as conservative Republican senators grappled with phrases from a 1993 speech in which she endorsed “self determination” in matters such as abortion.
In the speech, Miers also said, “Abortion clinic protestors have become synonymous with terrorists and the courts have been the refuge for the besieged.”
She also said in the speech that the debate continued in society over whether “to once again criminalize abortions or to once and for all guarantee the freedom of the individual woman’s right to decide for herself whether she will have an abortion.”
She said, “The more I think about these issues, the more self-determination makes the most sense.”
She added, “Legislating religion or morality we gave up on a long time ago.”
Only four years prior to making this speech, Miers had endorsed a constitutional amendment to ban abortion in most cases. |
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