What 81% of Americans Need to Know About Elena Kagan
A C-SPAN poll reveals that 81% of Americans have no idea who Elena Kagan is. Why should they care?
On Wednesday I got to sit in on Elena Kagan's hearings to pray. Susan Tyrrell, one of the writers here at Moral Outcry, was able to get guest seating from her Senator. We were supposed to be in an observation booth, but were offered special seating when we got there directly behind Kagan. It was a great place to pray and resist the kind of ideology that Kagan represents. What has become clear to the pro-life community is that she is an activist figure to the core that is unfit for the Supreme Court. She has no prior judicial experience, so we have no evidence to believe that she will suddenly become impartial on the bench and abandon her extreme political activism.
One of the things that was addressed for the last couple of days dealt with her manipulation of medical research concerning partial birth abortion under the Clinton administration. ACOG (American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) was going to release a statement saying that they could find no instance when a partial birth abortion procedure would be necessary to save the life of a woman. Kagan wrote that if this information got out, "This, of course, would be a disaster." Kagan revised the final language of the ACOG research in 1997 to say that the partial-birth abortion "may be the best and most appropriate procedure in particular circumstances to save the life or preserve the health of the woman." Apparently, Kagan has no internal ethical problem with altering scientific information in the most extreme ways in order to promote the pro-abortion agenda and framework of public policy.
It also was revealed Wednesday that she attempted to influence similar findings of the AMA (American Medical Association). As part of the Clinton administration Kagan helped shape dangerous policy positions on human cloning that open the door for fetal harvesting for research. (For more information on that read the series "Industry of Death.")
I very much appreciated the statements entered into the record by Tony Perkins (Family Research Council) and Charmaine Yoest (Americans United for Life) urging the Senate to reject Kagan who is certain to be an activist Judge if confirmed to the high court. (You can read Dr. Yoest's transcript here.)
What more needs to be said? This woman is a political activist that holds dear some of the most extreme pro-abortion philosophies. If confirmed, this young woman could promote these dangerous views on the Court for several decades to come.
We are contending here in DC, and we join our prayers with yours to resist the agenda of death. Not-So-Coincidentally, our seats at the hearing made it so that Susan's Life Band was directly over Kagan's head most of the morning. May it be a picture of our accumulated prayers prevailing over the ideology of the Court.
About the Author
Matt is a husband and proud father of four children. He's a full-time missionary serving as the Director of Bound4LIFE and the Justice House of Prayer DC. Formerly he had a career in advertising and marketing. Periodically he really wishes he had paid more attention in Government class.
