John Roberts' nomination for the Supreme Court has called attention to his wife's unpaid legal work for a super-slick anti-choice group deceptively called
Feminists For Life. Should we feel that this will effect Roberts' judgement on the Court? Family man
Rick Santorum doesn't think so, but other Americans may beg to differ.
FFL is part of of a another deliberately ms-titled anti-choice campaign called Women Deserve Better. I would be interested in hearing what other readers think about FFL. Judging from this group's website, I think it has a creepily eugenic edge . . .
FFL prides itself on its
College Outreach Program. Here's their double-talk:
"College students are constantly told to challenge the status quo. Thirty-two years after the Roe v. Wade decision, abortion has become the status quo -- one out of every five abortions is performed on a college woman. FFL serves as a catalyst for developing resources and progressive solutions for pregnant and parenting students by asking women what they really want -- because women deserve better."
FFL seems to take relatively little interest in the needs of poor, pregnant (and nonwhite) women. Judging from its website, FFL's real interest seems to be in trying to keep college students from getting abortions. The Roberts have two adopted children. Does anyone else know anything about this group?