The campaign invites Catholics to send an e-mail or postcard to their senators telling them that support for Roe v. Wade should not be used as a litmus test for judicial nominees.
«Abortion advocacy groups have pledged to spend $10 million dollars every year to see that only judges who promise to endorse Roe are confirmed,» said Cathy Cleaver Ruse, spokeswoman for the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities.
Cardinal William Keeler wrote to all U.S. senators in January to urge them not to use a pro-abortion litmus test for nominees. «By any measure,» he said, «support for the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision is an impoverished standard for assessing judicial ability.»
Ruse added: «No senator should make a litmus test out of what Justice Blackmun’s former law clerk Edward Lazarus calls ‘one of the most intellectually suspect constitutional decisions of the modern era.'»