Anti-Abortionists only apparent foes of Judge O’Connor as hearing starts

WASHINGTON – Anti-abortion lobbyists ap• _pear to be the only ones opposing Senate confirmation of Sandra O’Connor of Phoenix as the first woman justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. The Senate Judiciary Committee today begins a •Ulree-day hearing on President Reagan’s nominaton M Judge O’Connor to succeed Justice Potter :S~;who retired July 3. , The hearings will. be televised on KAET, Channel 8, beginning at 7 p.m. today, Thursday and Friday. Several ardent opponents of legalized abortion are scheduled to appear before the 18-member committee to speak against Judge O’Connor’s confirmation. The~ base their opposition largely on the belief that her voting record in the Arizona Senate from 1969 to 1975 does not establish unequivocal support for the right-to-life movement. Political observers, however, expect their testi• mony fo have little influence on the committee’s vote. “I am not aware of any senator who has firmly planted his foot and said he is not going to vote for her,” said Bob Maynes, a spokesman for Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz., a Judiciary Committee member. Maynes said the lobbyists who oppose Judge O’Conner seem to be misinterpreting her public record on the abortion issue. ”She; has said many times that she is personally opposed to abortion,” he said. “What she will not do, understandably, is commit herself in advance on hypothetical questions about what she would do if such.and-such a case came before the Supreme Court, and that’s apparently what has some people