26 pro-life lawmakers support judge

PHOENIX (AP) – Sandra O’Connor, the first woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, has the firm support of 26 Arizona legislators who have consistently voted for a constitutional convention in behall of a Right-to-Life amendment banning abortions. Several stand ready to go to Washington to testify for her. Rep. Pete Corpstein, R-Paradise Valley, said Monday that letters in her behall have been sent to U.S. Senate Judiciary Chairman J. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C.; Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Jesse Helms, R-N .C. “We’re doing this to lay to rest some of the unfounded rumors and innuendos about her stand on abortion,” Corpstein said. O’Connor has been attacked by national Right-to-Life and moral majority leaders for her voting record on abortion in the Arizona Senate, in which she served as majority leader in 1973-74. “I wish hall the people in the moral majority had hall the morality and christianity of O’Connor,” Corpstein said. Rep. Donna Carlson West, a Mesa Republican and leader of the anti-abortion and anti-Equal Rights Amendment movements in Arizona, also gave her unqualified support to O’Connor. “I’ve had a number of calls from around the country from people who claim she’s anti-religion, pro-gun control, proabortion and was keynote speaker at the International Women’s Conference,” said Carlson West. “None of that is true.”