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Santorum: Mrs. Roberts' work not relevant | "My wife has opinions on things that may or may conform with mine and I think most couples are in that situation," Santorum said on NBC's "Today" show (Associated Press, July 25, 2005)

Anti-abortion advocacy of wife of court nominee draws interest | Mrs. Roberts has led an independent and unapologetic life that defies any attempt at pigeonholing (The New York Times, July 23, 2005)

Wife's role in women's group now in focus | As US senators and their interest group allies engage in an intense guessing game over how Bush's first Supreme Court pick would rule in cases involving Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision creating a right to abortion, his wife's role in the Washington-based Feminists for Life is emerging as a point of scrutiny. But the story is a complex one. (TheBoston Globe, July 22, 2005)

Wife's role in women's group now in focus | Jane Sullivan Roberts's story is a complex one (The Boston Globe, July 22, 2005)

Poll: Roberts' abortion stance of interest | Just over half of all Americans — and a solid majority of women — want to know John Roberts' position on abortion before the Senate votes on whether to elevate him to the Supreme Court (Associated Press, July 21, 2005)

Nominee's wife is a feminist after her own heart | Those scouring the writings of John G. Roberts to assess how he would vote on future Supreme Court cases involving abortion will not find much clarity from his wife's record. Like him, she seems unequivocally antiabortion in her personal views, but from there she does not follow the usual path (The Washington Post, July 21, 2005)

More CT articles on abortion are available on our Life Ethics page.

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