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Sunday, September 11, 2005
Specter to Probe Roberts on Right to Privacy
Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) went on NBC's "Meet the Press" today and told host Tim Russert that he would not ask Chief Justice nominee John G. Roberts how he might rule if Roe v. Wade were revisited. At least this is what the Associated Press found interesting about the appearance. Perhaps more importantly, though, Specter pledged to probe Roberts' beliefs on the right to privacy -- the backbone of a woman's right to choose.
Specter said he was uncertain whether Roberts would favor overturning the Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 that established a right to abortion. Specter supports a woman's right to choose to end her pregnancy.Are there still some on the left who would have rather seen Specter defeated in 2004, leaving ultra-conservative Jon Kyl (R-AZ) as chair of the Judiciary Committee?
"I think it is inappropriate to ask him head-on if he's going to overturn Roe, but I believe that there are many issues close to the issue, like his respect for precedent," Specter told NBC's "Meet the Press."
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But Specter said asking Roberts, now an appeals court judge, whether the high court correctly found a right to privacy in the Constitution when rationalizing its abortion decision would be fair "and I intend to ask it."
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