Miers' Aide Says She's Extremely Anti-Choice

Posted on October 4, 2005

Well, that didn't take long. Those who are wondering where Harriet Miers stands on the abortion issue have direct evidence that Miers is vehemently anti-choice. In an interview with The Dallas Morning News, Miers' former campaign manager for her run for the Dallas City Council drops these little bombs this morning about her former boss:

As political activists rush to mine Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' slender public record, a former campaign manager says she opposed abortion rights while running for Dallas City Council in 1989. "She is on the extreme end of the anti-choice movement," said Lorlee Bartos, who managed Ms. Miers' first and only political campaign and said they discussed abortion once during the race. "I think Harriet's belief was pretty strongly felt," Ms. Bartos said Monday. "I suspect she is of the same cloth as the president."
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Ms. Bartos said Ms. Miers was supportive of abortion rights in her youth. She said Ms. Miers then underwent "a born-again, profound experience" that caused her to oppose abortion.
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Ron Key, who has been Ms. Miers' pastor since the early 1980s, said his church is anti-abortion. Mr. Key, who recently left Valley View Christian Church to found a new church with Ms. Miers and others, stopped short, however, of saying that those beliefs would color her approach to the law.

Well that seems clear enough. Unless she's undergone some other kind of major conversion in her thinking since 1989 (which is wildly unlikely given her resume) she'll vote for as many restrictions on Roe vs. Wade and then to overturn it faster than you can say "Harry Reid Should Keep His Big Mouth Shut." Oh, didn't you know? It was Harry Reid who suggested Miers to Bush.