Elena Kagan Helped Block Partial Birth Abortion Ban
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
It has recently been discovered that U.S. Solicitor General, Elena Kagan, President Obama’s pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, helped craft President Clinton’s political strategy for sustaining his veto of the partial birth abortion in 1997, an effort that prevented the ban from becoming law until 2003.
