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Robert Conrad, nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on July 17, 2007.
Robert Conrad has a long history of hostility toward legal abortion. From 1983-1986, Conrad served on the board of directors for the Charlottesville Pregnancy Center, an organization seemingly modeled as a so-called "crisis pregnancy center" (CPC). Many CPCs intentionally misinform and mislead women who are seeking pregnancy-related assistance by providing medically inaccurate information about pregnancy, contraception, or abortion. In an op-ed in The Charlotte Observer in 1988, Conrad called Planned Parenthood a "radical, pro-abortion fringe group" that "promotes a radical abortion agenda."
Richard Honaker, nominated to be a U.S. District Judge for the District of Wyoming on March 19, 2007.
Richard Honaker has a long history of working to end legal abortion. In 1991, he introduced the “Human Life Protection Act” in the Wyoming House as a direct attack on Roe v. Wade. Fortunately, the bill failed in committee. Undeterred, Honaker attempted to reintroduce the near-total abortion ban again in 1992, only to have the bill defeated. Honaker has not just pushed to make abortion illegal; he has also published articles and given speeches about the right to choose and how laws should be interpreted in general.
Claude Allen, nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
As the number two official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, he helped to extend legal recognition of embryos and fetuses and continues to promote abstinence-unless-married programs, which censor discussion of contraception. As a public official in Virginia, Allen supported several restrictions on the right to choose; and as a spokesman for Jesse Helms, Allen compared abortion to genocide. Allen's nomination was not voted on by the Senate Judiciary Committee. He has not been renominated by President Bush.
Carolyn Kuhl, nominated to the U.S.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Working in the Reagan Department of Justice, she urged the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. Kuhl's nomination was filibustered. She has not been renominated by President Bush.
Charles W. Pickering, Sr., recess-appointed by George W. Bush to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit until the current Congress adjourned in October of 2004. Pickering led the Republican Party to respond to Roe v. Wade with an anti-choice plank to the party platform calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban abortion. Defying strong Senate opposition, President Bush recess-appointed Pickering on January 16, 2004. Pickering retired from the bench in December of 2004 and he has not been renominated by President Bush.
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