Anti-Alito/Pro-Abortion Forces Get More Ammo

Some additional documents have come out from Judge Alito's early years in the Reagan Administration that are sure to light more fires under the pro-abortion camp:

As a young government lawyer opposed to abortion rights, Samuel Alito argued for a legal strategy of chipping away at the landmark Supreme Court ruling rather than mounting an all-out assault likely to inflict a defeat on the Reagan administration, according to documents released Wednesday.

"No one seriously believes that the court is about to overrule Roe v. Wade," the current Supreme Court nominee wrote in an internal Justice Department memo on May 30, 1985. Referring to a high court decision to review two abortion-related cases at the time, he asked, "What can be made of this opportunity to advance the goals of bringing about the eventual overruling ... and in the meantime, of mitigating its effects."

The memo was among several hundred pages of documents dating from Alito's 1981-1987 tenure in the Justice Department, released on the day the Supreme Court heard arguments in an abortion case for the first time in five years.

Go back and reread that first sentence again - "As a young government lawyer opposed to abortion rights" - not opposed to abortion, but abortion rights. That's a sneaky way for the pro-abortion crowd to make their arguments a little more palatable. After all, it's politically incorrect to be opposed to someone's "rights", so if you frame the article that way, Alito must be a bad guy.

In fact, Alito is opposed to abortion, an act which he sees as the murder of an unborn baby. "Rights" have nothing to do with it. All of this coming out on a day when a New Hampshire parental notification case came before the court will just add to the sense of urgency among those in the pro-abortion lobby.

Perhaps we should start describing the pro-abortion crowd as being "against fetal rights". Who knows, maybe that will turn the argument around a bit.