Welcome to Republicans For Choice PAC

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
July 20, 2005

For more information contact:

Ann Stone
Phone: (703) 212-0890
GOP4Choice@erols.com

Republicans For Choice, PAC
205 S. Whiting St., Suite 260
Alexandria, VA 22304

Alexandria, VA - Republicans for Choice PAC reacted with cautious optimism upon hearing that President Bush had nominated John G. Roberts to replace retiring Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court.

"Roberts was one of the few potential nominees we felt could end up as acceptable." said Ann E.W.Stone, National Chairman of Republicans for Choice PAC. "There are still questions that need to be answered but we are cautiously optimistic. Our research will continue." She added, "We were the only pro-choice group in the country that said publicly that David Souter would be fine on Roe. So I hope our sources and research will prove us right this time too."

Judge Roberts has left a limited paper trail, but he did co-author a brief, stating on behalf of his "client" the Reagan Administration, that “the Court’s conclusion in Roe that there is a fundamental right to abortion, finds no support in the text, structure or history of the Constitution.” However we do not know from that if that represents his personal view.

When testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee Justice Roberts stated, “Roe. v. Wade is the settled law of the land.” and “There’s nothing in my personal views that would prevent me from fully and faithfully applying that precedent, as well as (the) Casey (decision).”

That response was to a direct question about his earlier statement on Roe. But the role and perspective of a DC Federal Judge is different than sitting on the Supreme Court itself where precedent is created.

We have already started a close and careful review of his background and will continue to gather information on his professional background as well as gain a greater sense of his personal values and how that may play out in the Court. We have seen more than one Justice "grow" from conservative to more moderate, much to the chagrin of conservatives.

Moderate Pro-choice GOP Senator Arlen Specter, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, has made clear his intention to comprehensively review Justice Roberts’ record and not simply rubber stamp the President’s nominee. We will support him and our other moderate GOP Senators in that effort in every way possible. We are already meeting with them to help formulate questions that need to be answered before we can be totally comfortable with him.

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