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Kagan's Top Ten

Brencis Wrote: Jul 01, 2010 11:08 AM

#3 Kagan revised the language so the final statement in 1997 said that the partial-birth abortion "may be the best and most appropriate procedure in particular circumstances to save the life or preserve the health of the woman." Under questioning from Sen. Orrin Hatch, Kagan admitted that she did speak with ACOG to revise the statement but refused to take ownership over the memos advocating the less restrictive language. Kagan also said ACOG couldn't identify any circumstances in which the procedure was the only one that could be used in a given case but could find situations in which it was least riskiest procedure for women. "There did come a time when we saw a draft statement that stated the first of these things which...

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Kagan's Top Ten

Here are the top ten quotes from Solicitor General Elana Kagan as she goes into her fourth day of Senate hearings.

1. "Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant." — Responding to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who asked Kagan was she was doing on Christmas Day of last year, when a an terrorist was caught trying to blow up a plane.

2. "Lets just throw that piece of work in the trash, why don't we?" she said. "That's before I went to law school, and didn't understand much about the way judges should work." — Speaking about her...

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