{"id":16747,"date":"2012-05-18T01:51:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T06:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=16747"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:28:41","slug":"fact-check-naral-abortion-activist-nancy-keenan-makes-deceptive-witness-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fact-check-naral-abortion-activist-nancy-keenan-makes-deceptive-witness-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-check: NARAL abortion activist Nancy Keenan makes deceptive witness claim"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Nancy Keenan, president of the pro-abortion access group NARAL, wrote in an e-mail sent May 17:<\/p>\n

Today, a subcommittee dominated by anti-choice male politicians refused to let D.C.\u2019s lone representative, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, testify on behalf of her constituents \u2013 the very women who will be affected if this ban becomes law. Is this starting to sound familiar?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The truth?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, tells the full story in an e-mail to LifeNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Democrats on the House Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee had a discretionary witness slot for the May 17 hearing on H.R. 3803, the bill to prohibit abortion of pain-capable unborn children, after 20 weeks, in the District. The Democrats could have used that slot to invite Norton, or to invite any other person they chose to discuss the implications of the bill for \u201cD.C. autonomy,\u201d if they really thought that \u201cD.C. autonomy\u201d was the primary issue raised by this bill. But instead, the Democrats invited a woman who had a late-term abortion. Apparently, then, the Democrats in Congress who are really calling the shots \u2014 or the pro-abortion activist lobbyists who advise them what shots to call \u2014 think that this bill and this hearing are, first and foremost, about late-term abortions, not about \u201cD.C. autonomy.\u201d And we agree. In fact, we have found that many lawmakers are shocked to learn that in the nation\u2019s capital, abortion is legal for any reason, to the moment of birth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So if House Democrats wanted to call Norton to testify, they could have, but instead they chose to select another witness to testify. One could just as easily argue that it was the abortion-supporting Democrats who prevented Norton from testifying because neither side chose to call Norton with its witness choices. Deciding to not call a witness is not equivalent\u00a0to refusing to let an individual testify, and making such a claim amounts to deceptive political rhetoric from Keenan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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