Videos Feature Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings, Interview With GOP Sen. Candidate

The following summarizes selected women’s health related videos.  Kagan Discusses Abortion Rights: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) became the first lawmaker to raise the issue of abortion rights during Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing this week…

Documents From Clinton Era Portray Kagan As Pragmatic Strategist On Issues Like Abortion, Contraception

The National Archives released 46,700 pages of documents Friday from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s tenure as a policy adviser and legal counsel in the Clinton administration that reveal “a woman who … was trying to balance competing policy objectives and chart a centrist course” on issues ranging from abortion to embryonic stem cell research, the New York Times reports…

Rep. Slaughter Urges Senate Judiciary Committee To Press Kagan About Abortion Views

Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), co-chair of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee urging lawmakers to thoroughly question Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan about her views on abortion rights, the AP/Google News reports. Slaughter described as “troubling” a memo that Kagan wrote in 1997 while working as a policy adviser in the Clinton White House…

Moderate Sens. Give Favorable Reviews Of Kagan After Meetings

Sens. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Scott Brown (R-Mass.) gave positive reviews of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan after meeting with her during her second day of talks with lawmakers, Roll Call reports…

Kagan Co-Authored Clinton White House Policy Memo Supporting Compromise On 'Partial-Birth' Abortion Bill

As an adviser in the Clinton White House, Solicitor General Elena Kagan — President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee — co-authored a May 1997 memo recommending that President Clinton support a compromise proposal by then-Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D…

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