With such a strongly pro-life wife, some are suggesting that Judge Roberts not only shares her views but also would act on them to seek to overturn such Supreme Court rulings as Roe v. Wade and other pro-abortion decisions handed down over the last three decades.
At issue is Jane Roberts' work with Feminists for Life, a group she sought out some 10 years ago, when she offered her legal services to the group that states: "Abortion is a reflection that our society has failed to meet the needs of women. Women deserve better than abortion."
According to the Times, Mrs. Roberts served on the board of the organization for four years, and later provided legal services. The group's president, Serrin Foster, told the Times that as an adoptive parent, Mrs. Roberts - she and her husband have two adopted children - made contributions that included urging the group to focus more on the needs of biological mothers, and adding a biological mother to the board of directors.
Mrs. Foster explained that Feminists for Life is committed not only to ending abortion but also to making it "unthinkable" by providing every woman with the assistance she needs. Reversing Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that recognized a constitutional right to abortion, is a goal, she said, "but not enough."
In recent years the group has supported efforts to ban the grisly procedure known by the name the doctor who first performed it gave it - partial-birth abortion - as well as promoting legislation that prohibits transporting a minor across state lines to evade parental notification laws.
"Jane has very strong personal convictions, politically and with regard to her faith," Christine Kearns, a friend and colleague who has worked with Mrs. Roberts for 18 years, told the Times. "But as long as I've known her, I've never known her to impose them on others or to be unwilling to listen to other people's points of view."
But the views and work of Jane Roberts, like her husband a strongly devout Roman Catholic, has pro-abortion groups in a tizzy.
"It's unclear how all this will affect her husband," Jennifer Palmieri, a spokeswoman with the Center for American Progress, a liberal public policy group, told the Los Angeles Times. "It's possible that he would have a different view than her. It's just that in the absence of information about this guy, people are looking at her and trying to read the tea leaves."
It appears that for once, leftist pro-abortion groups don't plan to heed the advice of their hero, Ted Kennedy.
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