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Elena Kagan, M.D.

Posted on | June 30, 2010 | 42 Comments

Excuse me if  I fail to see how a Harvard Law diploma qualifies Elena Kagan to draft a medical paper on partial-birth abortion:

It seems that the most important statement in the famous position paper of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists—a 1996 document that was central to the case of partial-birth-abortion defenders for the subsequent decade and played a major role in a number of court cases and political battles—was drafted not by an impartial committee of physicians, as both ACOG and the pro-abortion lobby claimed for years, but by Elena Kagan, who was then the deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy.

The full article by Shannen W. Coffin explains this political manipulation of medical authority. I’m reminded of Animal House:

Otter: Take it easy, I’m pre-law.
Boon: I thought you were pre-med.
Otter: What’s the difference?

Human Events calls it “the ‘ClimateGate’ of the abortion debate.” And Melissa Clouthier says:

The Republicans should filibuster. This should be over.

More at Memeorandum.

Category: Abortion, Supreme Court

Comments

42 Responses to “Elena Kagan, M.D.”

  1. Estragon
    June 30th, 2010 @ 6:22 am

    Her substitute language clearly changed the impression of the group’s conclusion to the opposite – they had found no circumstance under which the “DX” procedure was necessary; she substituted language which said instead that it might “in a particular case be the only” way to safeguard the mother’s life or health, which nothing supports.

    Why did they accept the change? Because although their original study wasn’t biased, their membership was (at least the committee writing the summary), and regretted the finding which would hurt the PBA case.

    This combined with her hilarious attempt to respond to Coburn’s inquiry about Congress mandating Americans eat their veggies every day clearly demonstrate her lack of qualifications, and in fact are or should be disqualifying on their face.

    Unfortunately, if we successfully filibuster Kagan, Obama will double down with an even more radical nominee, figuring we can’t filibuster two without the public seeing us as just obstructing – but if we did, he’d send up an even worse third nominee, and so on. This guy doesn’t quit. He was indoctrinated with Marxist philosophy from an early age and was never exposed to anything or anyone which might challenge his world view, so he “furthers the revolution” any way he can at every turn.

  2. Estragon
    June 30th, 2010 @ 2:22 am

    Her substitute language clearly changed the impression of the group’s conclusion to the opposite – they had found no circumstance under which the “DX” procedure was necessary; she substituted language which said instead that it might “in a particular case be the only” way to safeguard the mother’s life or health, which nothing supports.

    Why did they accept the change? Because although their original study wasn’t biased, their membership was (at least the committee writing the summary), and regretted the finding which would hurt the PBA case.

    This combined with her hilarious attempt to respond to Coburn’s inquiry about Congress mandating Americans eat their veggies every day clearly demonstrate her lack of qualifications, and in fact are or should be disqualifying on their face.

    Unfortunately, if we successfully filibuster Kagan, Obama will double down with an even more radical nominee, figuring we can’t filibuster two without the public seeing us as just obstructing – but if we did, he’d send up an even worse third nominee, and so on. This guy doesn’t quit. He was indoctrinated with Marxist philosophy from an early age and was never exposed to anything or anyone which might challenge his world view, so he “furthers the revolution” any way he can at every turn.

  3. Joe
    June 30th, 2010 @ 6:27 am

    She does have a Juris Doctor, the doctor of law.

  4. Joe
    June 30th, 2010 @ 2:27 am

    She does have a Juris Doctor, the doctor of law.

  5. Miss Sharon
    June 30th, 2010 @ 6:34 am

    My blood is boiling over this woman’s actions. She belongs locked up in an ivory tower not sitting on the highest court in the world with a lifetime appointment.

  6. Miss Sharon
    June 30th, 2010 @ 2:34 am

    My blood is boiling over this woman’s actions. She belongs locked up in an ivory tower not sitting on the highest court in the world with a lifetime appointment.

  7. Estragon
    June 30th, 2010 @ 11:50 am

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

    Give a fish Elena Kagan, and you feed him for weeks.

    But people should stop making fun of her looks. So what if she looks like Chaz Bono if he/she were ever sober? Beauty is only skin deep, perhaps we should give her a sporting chance, and skin her!

  8. Estragon
    June 30th, 2010 @ 7:50 am

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

    Give a fish Elena Kagan, and you feed him for weeks.

    But people should stop making fun of her looks. So what if she looks like Chaz Bono if he/she were ever sober? Beauty is only skin deep, perhaps we should give her a sporting chance, and skin her!

  9. Estragon
    June 30th, 2010 @ 11:51 am

    Being fat, ugly, and stupid is no way to go through a lifetime appointment.

  10. Estragon
    June 30th, 2010 @ 7:51 am

    Being fat, ugly, and stupid is no way to go through a lifetime appointment.

  11. Estragon
    June 30th, 2010 @ 11:57 am

    Okay, seriously: separated at birth? – http://tinyurl.com/2cwtcqr
    vs
    http://tinyurl.com/2ucc6b7

    .

    Okay, you tell me.

  12. Estragon
    June 30th, 2010 @ 7:57 am

    Okay, seriously: separated at birth? – http://tinyurl.com/2cwtcqr
    vs
    http://tinyurl.com/2ucc6b7

    .

    Okay, you tell me.

  13. Bill S.
    June 30th, 2010 @ 12:06 pm

    Bust her down on her “merits”. When BHO sends another whack-job, bust them down too.

    If you let fear of BHO’s next move control you, then he has already won. That’s how he operates.

  14. Bill S.
    June 30th, 2010 @ 8:06 am

    Bust her down on her “merits”. When BHO sends another whack-job, bust them down too.

    If you let fear of BHO’s next move control you, then he has already won. That’s how he operates.

  15. goddessoftheclassroom
    June 30th, 2010 @ 12:43 pm

    Bill S.

    BRAVO! Let’s fight the current battle courageously instead of surrendering in a battle that hasn’t even begun.

  16. goddessoftheclassroom
    June 30th, 2010 @ 8:43 am

    Bill S.

    BRAVO! Let’s fight the current battle courageously instead of surrendering in a battle that hasn’t even begun.

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  19. Joe
    June 30th, 2010 @ 2:37 pm

    Bill S. I am all for busting her down, and holding the line at the next nomination, if we had the votes. We don’t.

    That is okay, they did not surrender the Alamo when they didn’t have the “votes.” She should be grilled hard to expose where she is coming from and then people who disagree with her should vote against her. Unfortunately, given the current make up of the senate, it will not be enough.

    There are just too many lefties in office who do not get why we find cases like Wickard and Kelo offensive. Who really believe that the reason people are pro life is because they want to control women–and do not get that it is about protecting human beings. Who think gun rights are a sick obsession. Who saddly believe that displays of patriotism are just a step removed from fascism.

    Kagan will prove to be a poor vote on the Court, just like Sotomayor has shown herself to be, but I do not think she is the type of person who would be more effective than her predecessor.

    Elections matter and it is critically important we take control of Congress and the Presidency to prevent Obama appointing more justices.

  20. Joe
    June 30th, 2010 @ 10:37 am

    Bill S. I am all for busting her down, and holding the line at the next nomination, if we had the votes. We don’t.

    That is okay, they did not surrender the Alamo when they didn’t have the “votes.” She should be grilled hard to expose where she is coming from and then people who disagree with her should vote against her. Unfortunately, given the current make up of the senate, it will not be enough.

    There are just too many lefties in office who do not get why we find cases like Wickard and Kelo offensive. Who really believe that the reason people are pro life is because they want to control women–and do not get that it is about protecting human beings. Who think gun rights are a sick obsession. Who saddly believe that displays of patriotism are just a step removed from fascism.

    Kagan will prove to be a poor vote on the Court, just like Sotomayor has shown herself to be, but I do not think she is the type of person who would be more effective than her predecessor.

    Elections matter and it is critically important we take control of Congress and the Presidency to prevent Obama appointing more justices.

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  22. Adobe Walls
    June 30th, 2010 @ 11:13 am

    If we filibuster every hard left nominee Obama puts up eventually he’ll have put up someone more moderate. Ginsberg has been in poor health and just lost her husband (RIP). Statistics are not in her favor. Even if we wind up having to acquiesce to a second or third choice even worse than Kagan so what. How much worse than Stevens can they be? At this point the Social Democrats are convinced that the Republicans will not filibuster on principal.I agree. This is a weakness not a strength. Tit for tat is a perfectly acceptable way of dealing with opponents. Knowing that Republicans are willing to filibuster just to be obstructionist would do wonders for the right’s moral, even if it had no effect on the left’s way of thinking. There is an attitude on much of the Right that we must be “Better than they are” I submit that we MUST be Better at it than they are.

  23. Adobe Walls
    June 30th, 2010 @ 3:13 pm

    If we filibuster every hard left nominee Obama puts up eventually he’ll have put up someone more moderate. Ginsberg has been in poor health and just lost her husband (RIP). Statistics are not in her favor. Even if we wind up having to acquiesce to a second or third choice even worse than Kagan so what. How much worse than Stevens can they be? At this point the Social Democrats are convinced that the Republicans will not filibuster on principal.I agree. This is a weakness not a strength. Tit for tat is a perfectly acceptable way of dealing with opponents. Knowing that Republicans are willing to filibuster just to be obstructionist would do wonders for the right’s moral, even if it had no effect on the left’s way of thinking. There is an attitude on much of the Right that we must be “Better than they are” I submit that we MUST be Better at it than they are.

  24. Andrew Sullivan, OBGYN
    June 30th, 2010 @ 3:24 pm

    I fail to see what the issue is here.

  25. Andrew Sullivan, OBGYN
    June 30th, 2010 @ 11:24 am

    I fail to see what the issue is here.

  26. Joe
    June 30th, 2010 @ 3:26 pm

    I am for filibustering if you have the balls to filibuster. A half assed filibustering is worse than saving that for, God forbid, something happens to Nino, Clarence, Anthony, John or Sam. Again, I am for it but I do not think they have enough committed sentators right now to do it.

  27. Joe
    June 30th, 2010 @ 11:26 am

    I am for filibustering if you have the balls to filibuster. A half assed filibustering is worse than saving that for, God forbid, something happens to Nino, Clarence, Anthony, John or Sam. Again, I am for it but I do not think they have enough committed sentators right now to do it.

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  30. The Underground Conservative
    June 30th, 2010 @ 5:14 pm

    I don’t the emasculated girlie men that pass as GOP senators have the gonads to do anything other than squat to pee and bend over for the Dems and say, “Thank you, sir. May I have another?”

  31. The Underground Conservative
    June 30th, 2010 @ 1:14 pm

    I don’t the emasculated girlie men that pass as GOP senators have the gonads to do anything other than squat to pee and bend over for the Dems and say, “Thank you, sir. May I have another?”

  32. Andrew Sullivan
    June 30th, 2010 @ 6:59 pm

    Slanders and lies. My only problem with Elena Kagan is she will not embrace her lesbian core. Actually, with a bit more facial hair and some gym work, she might be actually attractive to me.

    I am on a mission from God. A gay and contradictory mission, but a mission nevertheless!

  33. Andrew Sullivan
    June 30th, 2010 @ 2:59 pm

    Slanders and lies. My only problem with Elena Kagan is she will not embrace her lesbian core. Actually, with a bit more facial hair and some gym work, she might be actually attractive to me.

    I am on a mission from God. A gay and contradictory mission, but a mission nevertheless!

  34. Andrew Sullivan
    June 30th, 2010 @ 7:00 pm

    And unlike the GOP members of congress, I refuse to sit to pee. I am proud that as a man I can stand.

  35. Andrew Sullivan
    June 30th, 2010 @ 3:00 pm

    And unlike the GOP members of congress, I refuse to sit to pee. I am proud that as a man I can stand.

  36. kansas
    June 30th, 2010 @ 4:35 pm

    Her stock went up with Lindsay Graham. That’s about the only stock that has gone up.

  37. kansas
    June 30th, 2010 @ 8:35 pm

    Her stock went up with Lindsay Graham. That’s about the only stock that has gone up.

  38. Andrew Sullivan
    June 30th, 2010 @ 8:58 pm

    Lindsay Graham. When will that lesbian finally come of her closet?

  39. Andrew Sullivan
    June 30th, 2010 @ 4:58 pm

    Lindsay Graham. When will that lesbian finally come of her closet?

  40. Estragon
    July 1st, 2010 @ 11:19 am

    People say we should filibuster them all, as if it were like a walk in the park.

    Wake up and smell the coffee. Even if Republicans could muster the guts to filibuster Kagan, and I doubt it very seriously, does anyone really believe they would have the stones – or the votes – to successfully do it over and over, to ever more radical nominees, while the press and Democrats pilloried the “obstruction” of it all? And completely derailed the anti-spending/deficit/health care socialism message we need to win in November?

    Put the bong down, for crying out loud! What is being suggested hasn’t a 1% chance of actually happening.

    Reality bites, it is true, but fantasy is no true substitute.

  41. Estragon
    July 1st, 2010 @ 7:19 am

    People say we should filibuster them all, as if it were like a walk in the park.

    Wake up and smell the coffee. Even if Republicans could muster the guts to filibuster Kagan, and I doubt it very seriously, does anyone really believe they would have the stones – or the votes – to successfully do it over and over, to ever more radical nominees, while the press and Democrats pilloried the “obstruction” of it all? And completely derailed the anti-spending/deficit/health care socialism message we need to win in November?

    Put the bong down, for crying out loud! What is being suggested hasn’t a 1% chance of actually happening.

    Reality bites, it is true, but fantasy is no true substitute.

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