By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Newly released records show that a statement supposedly written by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) that was used as the basis for striking down Nebraska’s partial birth abortion ban in 2000, was not drafted by the medical community, but by then-Clinton advisor Elena Kagan.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
It has recently been discovered that U.S. Solicitor General, Elena Kagan, President Obama’s pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, helped craft President Clinton’s political strategy for sustaining his veto of the partial birth abortion in 1997, an effort that prevented the ban from becoming law until 2003.
