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Because the frantic spinning on this baby is sure to make you sick as a dog. (Bolds mine)

Alito Argued to Overturn Roe in 1985 Memo

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito wrote in a June 1985 memo that the ruling that legalized abortion should be overturned, a position certain to spur tough questioning at January's confirmation hearings.

We can only hope. I'm crossing my fingers for very tough questioning, but I'm not holding my breath. Maybe we'll luck out and he'll never make it that far.

In a recommendation to the solicitor general on filing a friend-of-court brief, Alito said the government "should make clear that we disagree with Roe v. Wade and would welcome the opportunity to brief the issue of whether, and if so to what extent, that decision should be overruled."

The June 3, 1985 document was one of 45 released by the National Archives on Friday. A total of 744 pages were made public.

The memo contained the same Alito statements as one dated May 30, 1985, which the National Archives released in November — but with a forward note from Reagan administration Solicitor General Charles Fried acknowledging the volatility of the issue and saying that it had to be kept quiet.

Well, gee, why would they want to be so sneaky?

In paperwork released earlier from Alito's time in the Justice Department's solicitor general's office, he recommended a legal strategy of dismantling abortion rights piece by piece. And as part of an application for a job as deputy assistant attorney general, Alito said the Constitution does not guarantee abortion rights.

Uh-huh.

In the memo, Alito focused on a woman making an informed choice and states rights.

"While abortion involves essentially the same medical choice as other surgery, it involves in addition a moral choice, because the woman contemplating a first trimester abortion is given absolute and unreviewable authority over the future of the fetus," Alito wrote. "Should not then the woman be given relevant and objective information bearing on this choice? Roe took from the state lawmakers the authority to make this choice and gave it to the pregnant woman. Does it not follow that the woman contemplating abortion have at her disposal at least some of the same sort of information that we would want lawmakers to consider?"

Consistent with his previous writings, Alito said these arguments would be preferable to a "frontal assault on Roe v. Wade."

"Informed" choices. Uh-huh. "Objective information." Yeah. So who gets to write this "objective information" and "inform" women?

You know what? Whoever this person is, I bet he has one of these on his bumper:

(Yes, "he." You don't actually think they'd let a woman near this, do you?)

I love these "less government" Republicans that have no problem with government control over the bodies and choices of women.

In his memo, Alito said the government, in its argument, might be able to nudge the court and "to provide greater recognition of the states' interest in protecting the unborn throughout pregnancy, or to dispel in part the mystical faith in the attending physician that supports Roe and the subsequent cases."

Say. No. More.

(Cross-Poster, wider than a mile... I'm crossing you in style someday...)