Christian Conservatives Cautiously Support Miers
Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005
Posted: 9:27:26AM

EST WASHINGTON – As newly confirmed Chief Justice John Roberts began his first term at the Supreme Court on Monday, President Bush tapped Southern Methodist University graduate Harriet Miers as his second High Court nominee, prompting mixed reactions from politicians and Christians alike. Story


Miers Was Leader in Effort Within Bar to Rescind Support for Abortion
By ROBIN TONER
Published: October 4, 2005

Correction Appended

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 - Abortion rights activists were prepared for a climactic struggle over the successor to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a critical swing vote on the constitutional right to abortion. But the choice of Harriet E. Miers presented them with a very different challenge - not a clear-cut opponent of abortion, but someone with very little record on the issue at all.

Most of their attention was focused Monday on what public record existed on the issue: Ms. Miers's leadership, as president of the State Bar of Texas from 1992 to 1993, in an effort to roll back the American Bar Association's support for abortion rights.
Abortion rights leaders said it was "troubling," as Karen Pearl, interim president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, put it.

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