FactCheck.org: NARAL Anti-Roberts Ads “False”
FactCheck.org, as non-partisan a group as we’ve run across, posted an article tonight titled “NARAL Falsely Accuses Supreme Court Nominee Roberts:”
An abortion-rights group is running an attack ad accusing Supreme Court nominee John Roberts of filing legal papers “supporting . . . a convicted clinic bomber” and of having an ideology that “leads him to excuse violence against other Americans” It shows images of a bombed clinic in Birmingham , Alabama .
The ad is false.
And the ad misleads when it says Roberts supported a clinic bomber. It is true that Roberts sided with the bomber and many other defendants in a civil case, but the case didn’t deal with bombing at all. Roberts argued that abortion clinics who brought the suit had no right use an 1871 federal anti-discrimination statute against anti-abortion protesters who tried to blockade clinics. Eventually a 6-3 majority of the Supreme Court agreed, too. Roberts argued that blockades were already illegal under state law.
The images used in the ad are especially misleading. The pictures are of a clinic bombing that happened nearly seven years after Roberts signed the legal brief in question.
Read the entire linked article to see just how bad the NARAL ad is.
Bet this won’t stop “Litmus Test” Barbara Boxer from repeating the NARAL calumny “Supreme Court nominee John Roberts filed court briefs supporting violent fringe groups and a convicted clinic bomber.” Just like she’s still using the bogus “5,000 deaths per year” scare figure if Roe v Wade were ever overturned (see our post Barbara Boxer and the Big Lie).
Let’s hope NARAL’s sinking credibility can pull Senator Boxer down with it.
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