Elena Kagan Documents Leave Pro-Choice Group Pleased

Following an extensive review of a written record that contains relatively little information about Elena Kagan's personal legal positions, one of the leading abortion-rights advocacy groups seems genuinely satisfied with the Supreme Court nominee.

A Democratic source sent HuffPost the talking points being distributed by NARAL Pro-Choice America and used in turn by progressive groups tasked with defending Kagan's record. The bullets cast Obama's choice for the court as decidedly within the mainstream of public opinion on abortion -- which, for NARAL, is a positive. Notably, they cast Kagan as heir to the views held by Republican nominee and former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.



Ted Miller, a spokesman for NARAL, confirmed the authenticity of the talking points, though he said they should not be interpreted as an endorsement. That would, ostensibly, come after Kagan goes through her hearings. Still, Miller seemed generally pleased with the written record so far, and said eight staff members for the group looked through more than 40,000 documents released last week.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/14/elena-kagan-documents-lea_n_612039.html

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to be battle scarred veterans of the abortion wars. You don't know the battlefield unless you've been there. I don't believe that the prochoice folks would be trusting of any administration, given what has happened in the past. Perhaps the websites for PPFA and NARAL could tell you...read their positions carefully...you'll get a clue...