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Women’s groups endorse O’Connor

July 7, 1981

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Type: Newspaper article
Source: San Francisco Examiner
Collection: The Kauffman-Henry Collection
Date is approximate: No

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recognized she was not going to be acceptable to conservatives so they rushed this thing.” An associate of Falwell said, “The church people would desert him (Reagan) in droves .” “President Reagan’s nomination of Judge Sandra O’Connor of Arizona to the Supreme Court is a mistake.” Falwell said in a statement released by associate Cal Thomas. “Either the president did not have sufficient information about Judge O’Connor’s background in social issues or he chose to ignore that information.

“Judge O’Connor’s record indicates she is not an opponent of abortion on demand and is opposed to attempts to curb this biological holocaust that has taken the lives of more than 10 million innocent babies since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court” that legalized abortion. “Judge O’Connor also has been active in feminist causes and is a supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment, which Moral Majority believes would be a disaster for men and women and would further undermine the traditional family … ”

Nancy Kramer, executive director of the Committee for Public Justice, a New York-based affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, urged that O’Connor’s background be checked before Senate confirmation hearings begin. Kramer is also head of a project called “Supreme Court Watch” which the committee set up last January to compile dossiers on who were considered to be the likeliest nominees for the Supreme Court vacancy. The nomination of O’Connor, a 51-year-old former state

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