Kagan on the Mutilation of Unborn Children

Written By: Terence Jeffrey  |  Posted: Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Elena Kagan was not only to the left of President Bill Clinton on partial-birth abortion, but a fair reading of a memo she wrote in 1996 indicates she believed Clinton was a little squishy on the issue.
The memo, recently released by the Clinton Presidential Library, demonstrates Kagan was intent on preserving an absolute right to kill "pre-viable" babies - even if it had to be done by sucking out a baby's brains. In a partial-birth abortion, a doctor pulls a baby feet-first from the womb until only the head remains inside. Then the doctor puncture's the baby's skull and suctions out his brains.

The moment of "viability" in pregnancy simply means the point at which a baby's life can be preserved outside the womb. It is no way linked to the God-given rights of the baby. When a machine can sustain an embryo from conception, conception and "viability" will be simultaneous. Yet, Kagan wanted to maintain this movable moment as an absolute barrier to state restrictions on abortion - even if the restriction simply said: Don't suction the baby's brain.

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