What Women Want to Know about Miers
Obviously, feminist women (and men) want to know where Harriet Miers stands on Roe v Wade. With virtually no paper trail, it will take a certain amount of creativity to ascertain the answer.
ABC News reported that her limited record suggests she opposes Roe.
- While active in the Texas American Bar Association in late 1990's, she was a leader of an unsuccessful movement to get the organization to rescind its pro-choice positions and support for taxpayer-funded abortion for poor women.
- In 1989 Miers donated $150 to a Texas pro-life group.
- And on a related issue -- in a White House internet session last year Miers was asked about research using stem cells from human embryos and described the process this way: "...taking one life to save another presents moral and ethical issues..."
Religious Right web sites note that Miers has been a member of Valley View Christian Church in Dallas for 25 years, a "conservative evangelical church" according to one of the church's elders.
But one comment, above all others, should disqualify Miers for the nations top court. The one where she said Bush was "the most brilliant man" she had ever met.
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