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Ashcroft Resignation Presents Major Test For Bush
John Ashcroft's resignation is the first major test of whether President Bush meant what he said last week about uniting Americans. The President says he wants to earn the trust of those who voted against him.
NARAL Pro-Choice America: Ashcroft Resignation Presents Major Test For Bush
11/9/2004 8:00:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: David Seldin, 202-607-7557; Elizabeth Cavendish, 202-237-1403, both of NARAL Pro-Choice America
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 /U.S. Newsiwre/ -- Following is a statement by Elizabeth Cavendish, Interim President, NARAL Pro-Choice America:
John Ashcroft's resignation is the first major test of whether President Bush meant what he said last week about uniting Americans. The President says he wants to earn the trust of those who voted against him. He can begin to do that by naming an Attorney General who believes in protecting fundamental rights and freedoms, not someone who believes his allegiance is to an extremist minority that wants to prevent Americans from exercising their basic rights.
John Ashcroft changed the Attorney General's job description from law enforcement to ideological warfare. He attempted to invade Americans' personal privacy in innumerable ways. He aggressively defended the federal abortion ban that three federal courts have declared unconstitutional and unenforceable, going so far as to subpoena the private medical records of thousands of women relating to their abortion care. As part of these efforts, he stated that patients no longer have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their medical records.
Ashcroft's Justice Department also argued in favor of a state abortion ban that clearly endangers women's health. Even after promising at his confirmation hearing to uphold Roe v. Wade as the law of the land, Ashcroft never stopped trying to roll back the right to choose.
http://www.usnewswire.com/
11/9/2004 8:00:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: David Seldin, 202-607-7557; Elizabeth Cavendish, 202-237-1403, both of NARAL Pro-Choice America
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 /U.S. Newsiwre/ -- Following is a statement by Elizabeth Cavendish, Interim President, NARAL Pro-Choice America:
John Ashcroft's resignation is the first major test of whether President Bush meant what he said last week about uniting Americans. The President says he wants to earn the trust of those who voted against him. He can begin to do that by naming an Attorney General who believes in protecting fundamental rights and freedoms, not someone who believes his allegiance is to an extremist minority that wants to prevent Americans from exercising their basic rights.
John Ashcroft changed the Attorney General's job description from law enforcement to ideological warfare. He attempted to invade Americans' personal privacy in innumerable ways. He aggressively defended the federal abortion ban that three federal courts have declared unconstitutional and unenforceable, going so far as to subpoena the private medical records of thousands of women relating to their abortion care. As part of these efforts, he stated that patients no longer have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their medical records.
Ashcroft's Justice Department also argued in favor of a state abortion ban that clearly endangers women's health. Even after promising at his confirmation hearing to uphold Roe v. Wade as the law of the land, Ashcroft never stopped trying to roll back the right to choose.
http://www.usnewswire.com/
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