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O’Connor is overcoming the dispute over abortion

September 12, 1981

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Type: Newspaper mention
Author: Associated Press
Source: The Peninsula Times
Collection: The Kauffman-Henry Collection
Date is approximate: No
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Supreme Court nominee Sandra Day O’Co,inor is emerging from three days of Senate confirmation hearings the apparent victor in a showdown with anti-abortionists opposed to her. On the final day of the hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mrs. O’Connor received bipartisan pledges to resist anti-aborti on pressures in confirmation votes expected next week. “I find something un-American about saying anyone could be judged on one issue alone,” Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, DOhio, said Friday. “It (abortion) will not be deter• minatlve for the Senate,” Metzenbaum told two prominent anti-abortion witnesses who claim that in the past Mrs. O’Connor has favored abortion. Mrs. O’Connor says she abhors abortion but that her personal views would not affect her court decisions. Sen. Robert Dole told the same two anti-abortion witnesses he did not think a nominee should have to “repudiate” the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision, which legalized abortion, to gain confirmation.

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