NARAL's Lying Roberts Ad

NARAL, the pro-abortions-of-all-types for-girls-of-any-age death lobby, has launched a scandalously distorted ad tying Judge Roberts to abortion clinic bombings.

There's so much wrong with the ad it will be blogfodder for days. I'm not a lawyer, I don't play one on TV, but some of the desperate lies of NARAL are evident even to me.

• The ad's spokes-abortionist was injured in an abortion clinic bombing in 1998; the case Roberts worked on that's mentioned in the ad was in 1991. Could someone please timeline any connection? The ad, of course, does not make the dates clear.
  
• Roberts was arguing for the right of American citizens to demonstrate on a public sidewalk -- a far cry from bomb-planting. The best the NARAL spokes-abortionist can come up with is, "Operation Rescue has openly organized attacks against clinics by blockading entrances." Some attack. Would we remember Mahammed Atta today if he had blocked the entrance to the World Trade Center?
  
• Roberts lost the case. Blockading entrances was not legal in 1998 when the spokes-abortionist regrettably was injured..

The NARAL ad, as the first really nasty effort in the Left's anti-Roberts campaign, signals that (as expected all along) they will not be civil; they will not remember the kindness extended Clinton and Ginsburg; they will not skip a beat in their commitment to aborting the very young.

Links to the ad and spokes-abortionist's statement are here.

Update: The WashPost puts the ad on the top of its Web site, but then deconstructs the NARAL position quite effectively:

The issue before the court in Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic , however, focused more narrowly on whether the anti-discriminatory Ku Klux Klan Act could be applied against abortion protesters.

In his oral argument before the court, Roberts said, according to a transcript of the proceedings, "The United States appears in this case not to defend petitioners' tortious conduct, but to defend the proper interpretation" of the statute.

Roberts's allies said his views on violence were clear from a 1986 White House memo, endorsed by Roberts when he served in the White House counsel's office during the Reagan administration, which said violent abortion protesters should not receive special consideration for presidential pardons. "No matter how lofty or sincerely held the goal, those who resort to violence to achieve it are criminals," the memo said.

Good job by the MSM!