NARAL Ads On Roberts False And Misleading
NARAL Ads On Roberts False And Misleading
NARAL Pro-Choice America s ad targeting Judge Roberts nomination drew fire from the nonpartisan group Factcheck.org for its false and misleading attacks. NARAL Pro-Choice America "launched the first major attack yesterday" on Roberts nomination, Long Island Newsday reports. As "a $500,000 television ad campaign against Roberts began running, the groups charged that Roberts demonstrated anti-abortion views in arguments he made as a government lawyer in a Supreme Court case on abortion clinic protests in the early 1990s." The Washington Times adds that conservatives "say pro-choice groups such as NARAL Pro-Choice America are distorting Judge Roberts' record to make it appear he condones violence outside abortion clinics when he has stated that he doesn't." Wendy Wright, senior policy director for Concerned Women for America, said, "The use of such outrageous accusations reveals how desperate NARAL is to smear a good man. This says a lot more about [abortion-rights proponents] than about John Roberts." And meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal opines this morning that the NARAL ad may backfire. "The ad practically screams: We're so desperate to find something to pin on John Roberts that we're not above making things up," the Journal writes.