A leaked memo from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is raising eyebrows among pro-life groups.

Kagan wrote the memo to then-President Bill Clinton when she served as White House counsel, suggesting that while he should not support H.R. 1122 -- the partial-birth abortion ban bill before Congress at that ime -- she felt he should support the amendment offered by Democratic Senator Tom Daschle. That amendment, she argued, would give abortionists the ability to decide when and to what child the bill applies.

Mary Harned, an attorney with Americans United for Life (AUL), tells OneNewsNow the Justice Department indicated serious questions about whether proposed amendments would pass constitutional muster. But according to Harned, in the memo Kagan "goes on to actually suggest that the president support the Daschle language anyway for political reasons. So even though she had just stated that there's concern that it's unconstitutional, she still urged him to support it"...

A crisis pregnancy center in Silver Spring has become the second group in Maryland to sue a Washington-area government over laws that pro-lifers say are part of a national campaign to snuff out anti-abortion speech.

Centro Tepeyac Women's Center, a 20-year-old Catholic agency on Apple Avenue, sued Montgomery County last week at U.S. District Court in Greenbelt over a Feb. 2 vote by the County Council that created a law requiring crisis pregnancy centers to post certain signs in English and Spanish...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Elena Kagan's reliance on foreign law for statutory interpretation presents another concern for pro-life advocates, says Americans United for Life in a new memo about President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee. The pro-life legal group says Kagan could use it as another basis to support legal abortions.

The use of foreign law in defending unlimited abortion "rights" as laid out in Roe v. Wade is nothing new for the pro-life movement.

It came up during the confirmation hearings on pro-abortion Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who pledged not to use it...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama has seen has approval ratings decline in the aftermath of his selecting pro-abortion Solicitor general Elena Kagan for the open Supreme Court position. Obama's approval ratings are at one of their lowest points in the last month and heading back down to their health care-dominated levels.

The Rasmussen Reports daily presidential tracking poll for Thursday shows 45% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance.

That compares with 53 percent who disapprove -- giving Obama an overall -8 percentage point approval rating...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Further analysis of the controversial memo Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan wrote for ex-President Bill Clinton on the subject of partial-birth abortion provides new concerns for pro-life advocates. It shows she regarded the ban on the abortion procedure as unconstitutional.

The new analysis from Americans United for Life also indicates Kagan would likely be hostile to any pro-life laws that may come before the Supreme Court.

President Barack Obama appointed his pro-abortion Solicitor General for the open seat vacated by retiring pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens...