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June 29, 2010
The Talented Elena Kagan, Lawyer By Day, Obstetrician By NightYou could very well call her the mother of partial-birth abortions. Because she herself crafted the statement -- supposedly from a medical association -- later relied upon by courts in knocking down partial-birth abortion bans. There is no better example of this distortion of science than the language the United States Supreme Court cited in striking down Nebraska’s ban on partial-birth abortion in 2000. This language purported to come from a “select panel” of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), a supposedly nonpartisan physicians’ group. ACOG declared that the partial-birth-abortion procedure “may be the best or most appropriate procedure in a particular circumstance to save the life or preserve the health of a woman.” The Court relied on the ACOG statement as a key example of medical opinion supporting the abortion method. In fact, the original ACOG report said that it "could identify no circumstances under which this procedure . . . would be the only option to save the life or preserve the health of the woman.” Writing that such a statement would be "politically disastrous," Kagan suggested that ACOG change its statement to the 100% opposite -- that a partial-birth abortion "may be the best or most appropriate procedure in a particular circumstance to save the life or preserve the health of a woman.” That's how we do science, Kagan-style. What’s described in these memos is easily the most serious and flagrant violation of the boundary between scientific expertise and politics I have ever encountered. A White House official formulating a substantive policy position for a supposedly impartial physicians’ group, and a position at odds with what that group’s own policy committee had actually concluded? You have to wonder where all the defenders of science—those intrepid guardians of the freedom of inquiry who throughout the Bush years wailed about the supposed politicization of scientific research and expertise—are now. If the Bush White House (in which I served as a domestic policy staffer) had ever done anything even close to this it would have been declared a monumental scandal, and rightly so. Oh come on, get with the times. The DNC handles our "science" for us now, the same as the politically-supreme orang-utans in Planet of the Apes. Remember Dr. Zaius blowing up the cave to suppress the human baby doll? Same thing.
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