President Joe Biden promised to nominate a pro-abortion woman to the Supreme Court, and that is one promise he has kept.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is supported by America’s most radical pro-abortion groups. Her record on life, religious liberty, and other values is troubling to many Americans of faith.
Confirmation hearings for Jackson began Monday, March 21, and are scheduled to run through the 24th.
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on whether to recommend that the Senate confirm Jackson. The nomination will then go to the full Senate, where another debate and vote will take place.
If confirmed, Jackson would replace Justice Stephen Breyer with his announced retirement when the current term ends in June. That would put her in place on the court shortly after it announces its highly anticipated decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
On the second day of confirmation hearings Jackson only fostered the concerns of pro-lifers when she said she had no idea when life begins.
During Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) asked Jackson, “When does life begin, in your opinion?”
Jackson responded, “Senator, um… I don’t know,” before then chuckling.
SENATOR: "When does life begin, in your opinion?"
— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) March 23, 2022
JACKSON: "Senator, um... I don't know." pic.twitter.com/CCIlP6wekt
A group of almost 40 pro-life leaders wrote to the chairs of the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday to "raise grave concerns" about the nomination.
"Ketanji Brown Jackson’s record speaks loudly of the type of justice she would be on the Supreme Court," the pro-life coalition wrote. "She has been handpicked by a pro-abortion president to satisfy the pressure campaign from pro-abortion, progressive activists."
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Biden’s consideration of a SCOTUS nominee based upon dubious criteria notwithstanding, various pro-life groups have called for opposition to the nomination due to Jackson’s record on life.
"She has favored silencing pro-life advocates saving lives outside abortion clinics and refers to procured abortion as “health care,” said John Horvat, a Catholic researcher, scholar and Vice President of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP).
“Most have little doubt that she will be sympathetic to leftist positions on other moral issues," Horvat said.
Priests for Life National Director Fr. Frank Pavone remarked to Breitbart about Jackson’s stance on the taking of innocent life through partial birth abortion.
“Here we now have a nominee who cannot even see that partial birth abortion is wrong,” he stated, “where the birth process itself is used as a mechanism for killing the baby.”
Students for Life Action (SFLA) has written more than one letter to the U.S. Senate opposing the nomination.
“Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s presence at the Supreme Court would present a unique and profound threat to the work of the Pro-Life Generation,” the group said. “She has a proven track record of opposing even late term limits to abortion, seen in her work on behalf of partial birth abortion …”
SFLA continued that Jackson’s “attacks on peaceful free speech, including student-initiated prayer and peaceful gatherings outside abortion vendors, show that she is prejudiced against people whose ideas she does not share and will use her power against them.”
“A Supreme Court justice should reflect the principles contained in the Bill of Rights and therefore should never approve of murdering an innocent person for any reason regardless of her place of residence. And that includes people prior to birth,” said Judie Brown, president of the American Life League (ALL).
ALL executive vice president Hugh Brown added, “Joe Biden and his ilk continually reference the constitutional right to abortion. It does not exist. Those words were never written.”
opposition to a Jackson confirmation to the Supreme Court.
The list of concerns for pro-life advocates over Jackson's record on life extends back through her career, including in 2001 when Jackson wrote an amicus brief for the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) in support of preventing pro-life supporters from gathering outside abortion centers.
Jackson has earned the favor of several pro-abortion, anti-religious liberty activist groups, The Federalist reports, including Planned Parenthood.
National pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) released a statement on Jackson’s pro-abortion extremism.
“With the Court’s decision in Dobbs expected this summer, the stakes have never been higher in the fight to restore power to protect unborn life to the people and their elected representatives, not unelected judges,” said SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Ketanji Brown Jackson’s record of hostility to pro-life Americans is radically out of step with the majority of the country.
SBA List said the nomination fulfills Biden’s promise to only appoint justices who support Roe v. Wade and “his party’s broader agenda of abortion on demand up to birth, without limits of any kind.”
“We urge senators to stand with unborn children and their mothers and reject this nominee,” Dannenfelser said. “We will be closely monitoring the hearings and working to expose the pro-abortion extremism of the Biden administration and their allies ahead of the crucial midterm elections.”
The March for Life opposed the Jackson nomination based even prior to its official announcement based upon Jackson’s record.
“March for Life opposes President Biden's [] nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the U.S. Supreme Court based on her record of judicial activism,” the group said. “We expect her to be a reliable vote for the far left and the Biden administration’s radical abortion agenda.”
“We urge the Members of the Senate to stand for our nation’s mothers and most vulnerable unborn by rejecting this extreme nominee,” the March for Life continued, “and we encourage the nomination of a judge who will honor our Constitution and the right to life.”
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) recently posted a lengthy Twitter thread on Jackson’s disturbing record of rulings concerning sex offenders.
“I’ve been researching the record of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, reading her opinions, articles, interviews & speeches,” Hawley said. “I’ve noticed an alarming pattern when it comes to Judge Jackson’s treatment of sex offenders, especially those preying on children.”
“Judge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker,” said Hawley.
Judge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker. She’s been advocating for it since law school. This goes beyond “soft on crime.” I’m concerned that this a record that endangers our children
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) March 16, 2022
“We need you to help stop the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson - a dangerous pro-abortion choice for the United States Supreme Court,” Live Action said on Twitter, linking to a letter for readers to contact Members of Congress.
“Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is a threat to American babies and human rights,” the group said. “No Judge who thinks the Constitution protects the right to kill a child should receive a single vote.”
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ALL’s Hugh Brown suggested that prayer remains a fundamental option in response to the Biden Jackson SCOTUS nomination.
“Let us pray Ketanji Brown Jackson has her heart touched by the Holy Spirit and is the total opposite of what the forces of abortion and evil perceive her to be,” he said. “For if she is indeed a woman who supports the whole sale slaughter of the innocents she should be opposed with every fiber of our being.”
