NARAL September 16th, 1987 FR: Kate Michelman, NARAL Executive Director Bork as "Confirmation-day moderate" In three days of testimony, Judge Bork has tried to reshape twenty years of Yet, while attempting to mollify his critics on the Committee by recognizing the offensiveness of some state laws -- eg. prohibition on contraceptive use, mandatory sterilization -- and by emphasizing his personal detachment from specific issues, like abortion, Judge Bork has continued to reaffirm his objection to fundamental constitutional protections for privacy and women's equality. It is ironic that Sen. Hatch, a leader of the anti-abortion minority, appeared so Bork continues to reject the right of privacy. Bork continues to deny equal protection guarantees to women. Bork has failed to provide any assurances that Roe v. Wade, or similar cases, would be protected by stare decisis. Bork's Inconsistencies on Abortion Rights On Tuesday, Bork seemed reasonable in offering three criteria for reexamining Roc or a What Right of Privacy? Bork said he would ask a lawyer arguing Rọc or a similar case to "derive a right of privacy not to be found in one of the specific amendments in some principle fashion from the Constitution.." But the same day, Judge Bork said of Griswold v. Connecticut and of the general right to privacy: "I have never tried to find a rationale [for privacy), and I haven't been |