WASHINGTON, November 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life groups have kept up an impressive barrage of calls, faxes and emails all centered on quashing Senator Arlen Specter’s chances of becoming the chair of the Judiciary Committee. While Senate Majority leader Bill Frist was first deluged by communications, now all Senate Republican leaders and members of the Judiciary Committee are hearing from grass-roots America that Specter should not be appointed to head the Committee. As soon as the rumble of opposition began to be heard, Specter furiously attempted to distance himself from his warning to President Bush not to appoint any pro-life nominees to the Supreme Court. However, Specter’s consistent record in support of abortion has come back to haunt him. “Senator Specter is a longtime defender of Roe v. Wade,” the National Right to Life Committee informs its supporters. “He played a key role in defeating the nomination of Judge Robert Bork (a Roe opponent) to the Supreme Court in 1987.” Only last week Specter said that Roe is “inviolate.” NRLC also points out that “Contrary to the impression people might receive from some news reports over the past week, Specter has NOT promised to support President Bush’s nominees to the Supreme Court.”
Human Events is reporting that none of the Senators on the Judiciary Committee are willing to publicly support Specter. Specter, the Pennsylvania Senator has even failed to get firm support from Pennsylvania junior senator, Rick Santorum, who, Human Events reports, is officially “undecided” about supporting Specter’s bid to chair the Judiciary Committee. Santorum is outspokenly pro-life. All contact information for the Senators is available here: https://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/issues/alert/?alertid=6611956&type=CU jhw