Alito: ‘No Constitutional Abortion Right’ and Americans Like Him
By Hilary White
WASHINGTON
November 14, 2005

(LifeSiteNews.com) - The Washington Times has reported that US President Bush’s latest nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., wrote in 1985 that he believed “very strongly” that “the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.”

The document obtained by the Times was an application to become deputy assistant to Attorney General Edwin I. Meese III during the Reagan administration.

Alito wrote that he had always considered himself a conservative. “I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion,” he said.

The Times quotes an anonymous source in the Republican party who denied that the 1985 document means that if appointed, Alito will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. The rest