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CWA Says NARAL’s Desperate Logic Suggests NOW Violence 8/9/2005 Washington, D.C. – Concerned Women for America (CWA) responded to NARAL Pro-Choice America’s insidious television ad launched yesterday, which falsely accuses Supreme Court nominee John Roberts of supporting abortion clinic bombers because of his work on a 1991 Supreme Court case involving pro-life demonstrators, calling it a desperate attempt to win attention.
“NARAL’s implication that John Roberts’ defense of peaceful protests in Bray v. Alexandria Women’s Health Clinic somehow shows that he condones abortion clinic bombers is outrageous,” said Wendy Wright, CWA’s senior policy director. “Last January, nine members of the National Organization for Women (NOW) were arrested outside the headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for obstructing the agency’s entrance during protests over the pending decision on the morning-after pill. According to NARAL’s faulty logic, NOW would be just as guilty of inciting violence through their peaceful protests.Observers of the NOW protest remarked how similar NOW’s protests were to sit-ins by pro-life demonstrators 15 years ago.”
As a U.S. deputy solicitor general under the first Bush administration, John Roberts filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Bray v. Alexandria Women’s Health Clinic arguing that the Civil Rights Act of 1871, enacted to protect African Americans from discrimination after the Civil War, did not prohibit peaceful pro-life demonstrators from standing outside of abortion clinics. The Bray case involved a lawsuit by the National Organization for Women against Operation Rescue, a group of peaceful pro-life protestors, for obstructing the entrance of an abortion clinic in Alexandria, Virginia. In a 6-3 decision, the Court sided with Roberts’ reasoning that the protestors were objecting to abortion rather than that the clients entering the clinic were women.
“The use of such outrageous accusations reveals how desperate NARAL is to smear a good man. This says a lot more about NARAL than about John Roberts,” said Wright.
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