U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers told a senator her opposition to abortion during a 1989 political campaign doesn't provide a clue to how she would decide the issue as a justice, the lawmaker said.
In a private meeting, Kohl tried to elicit Miers' views on the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
"She made the point that it was at a different time for a different purpose, that we should not read too much into that in terms of where she might be on the issue of privacy and a woman's right to choose," Kohl told reporters in Washington.
The news is not new. Miers has made a point of telling Senators that nobody knows her position, if any, on Roe v. Wade. At the same time, the record of Supreme Court John Roberts gave us even less information regarding his understanding of the sanctity of human life and the infamous Roe v. Wade decision.
