Papers Reveal Kagan's Thoughts on Partial-Birth Abortion, Religious Freedom
As a Clinton White House counsel, Solicitor General Elena Kagan said she felt it was best to let doctors decide when a “so-called partial-birth [abortion] procedure” was necessary.
But the now-Supreme Court nominee also sided with a landlady who refused to rent to unmarried couples based on her religious belief that sex outside of marriage was wrong.
“The plurality’s reasoning seem to me quite outrageous,” Kagan wrote in a 1996 memo regarding the California Supreme Court’s then-recent ruling against the landlady....