The conservative leaders who participate in the Conservative Action Project have just released a Memo for the Movement entitled "Conservatives Applaud Justice Alito and The
Supreme Court’s Work on Roe v Wade." The memo makes the point that the unhinged overreaction from the left has willfully misrepresented the impact of a final ruling which strikes down Roe. There will be no “nationwide abortion ban.” Rather, the issue of abortion policy will simply return to the states, where voters, rather than unelected judges, will decide the issue for themselves.
The full text of the Memo to the Movement and a list of signers as of CHQ post time follows:
May 11, 2022
Washington, DC
Despite the unprecedented and egregious nature of the recent leak from the Supreme Court, the conservative movement is thrilled with the superb legal reasoning and analysis presented by Justice Samuel Alito in his draft opinion striking down Roe v Wade.
While we acknowledge the draft nature of the opinion, we are tremendously gratified to see the Court acknowledge what the conservative movement and legal practitioners across the spectrum have known for decades: since its inception, Roe was wrongly decided.
As Justice Alito stated in the draft opinion, “Roe was “egregiously wrong from the start,” its reasoning was “exceptionally weak,” and it has had “damaging consequences.” Moreover, Alito wrote that, “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives…. That is what the Constitution and the rule of law demand.”
The unhinged overreaction from the left has willfully misrepresented the impact of a final ruling which strikes down Roe. There will be no “nationwide abortion ban.” Rather, the issue of abortion policy will simply return to the states, where voters, rather than unelected judges, will decide the issue for themselves.
Indeed, as Alito’s draft opinion stresses that this is an issue that should not be determined by judicial fiat, but rather by the democratic process: “The permissibility of abortion, and the limitations upon it are to be resolved like most important questions in our democracy: by citizens trying to persuade one another and then voting,” he wrote.
For the first time in 50 years, the pro-abortion movement will have to justify their cause in the democratic arena, which entails defending the gruesome and horrific practices of abortion and the blatant exploitation of women on which the abortion industry relies.
The left has engaged in a vicious assault on the norms of the Court and the country to prevent this democratic process from happening. Whoever leaked the draft of an opinion in a pending case is engaged in an overt attempt to bully the Court out of its deliberative proceedings and shake the foundations of an impartial application of the rule of law. We condemn it in the strongest terms.
We are profoundly grateful for the deeply researched and clearly reasoned scholarship of Justice Alito and those who stand with him. It would be our greatest privilege to see Roe struck down in our lifetimes – and to celebrate the lives of the millions of unique and precious souls who will be saved as a result.
As a movement, we have stood arm-in-arm to defend the cause of life for decades. We will continue to support pregnant mothers throughout every stage of pregnancy and motherhood and defend the cause of human dignity through resources, state, and federal policy advocacy.
We urge the Court to remain steady in its work and committed to its course. And we look forward to a final opinion that rights the tragic wrongs of Roe.
The Honorable Edwin Meese III
Attorney General
President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)
Penny Y. Nance
President & CEO
Concerned Women for America
The Honorable Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
Kevin Roberts, Ph.D.
President
The Heritage Foundation
The Honorable Brooke Rollins
President and CEO
America First Policy Institute (AFPI)
David N. Bossie
President
Citizens United
Ed Corrigan
Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project and President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute
Lori Roman
President
ACRU Action Fund
The Honorable Ken Cuccinelli, II
Senior Fellow
Center for Renewing America
Chad Connelly
Founder and President, Faith Wins
Wesley Denton
Chief Operating Officer
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
Tom Jones
Co-Founder
American Accountability Foundation
L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President
Media Research Center
Kelly J. Shackelford, Esq.
President and CEO
First Liberty Institute
David Bozell
President
ForAmerica
The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell
President
The Leadership Institute
Lisa B. Nelson
William L. Walton
The Bill Walton Show
Resolute Protector Foundation
Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)
Executive Vice President
Family Research Council
The Honorable Gary L. Bauer
President
American Values
The Honorable James C. Miller III
Budget Director for President Reagan (1985-1988)
The Honorable Matthew Buckham
Founder
American Accountability Foundation
Craig Shirley
Reagan Biographer
Presidential Historian
Rod D. Martin
Founder & CEO
The Martin Organization, Inc.
Christina Murphy Lusk
President
The Martin Foundation
Sherri R. Martin
Executive Vice President
The Martin Organization, Inc.
Jeff Hunt
Director, Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University
Nancy Schulze
Founder, President
RCW Speakers
William Shaker
CEO
Washington Marketing Group
Tom DeWeese
President
American Policy Center
Robert D. Thompson
Former Administrator
The Weyrich Lunch (1999-2016)
Gary Marx
Senior Advisor
Judicial Crisis Network
The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr.
Managing Editor
ConservativeHQ.com
Grace-Marie Turner
President
Galen Institute
Jack Park
Conservative Activist and Donor
Law Offices of Jack Park
Sean Noble
President
American Encore
Austin Stone
Chief Operating Officer
Center for Urban Renewal and Education
Saulius "Saul" Anuzis
President
60 Plus Association
James L. Martin
Founder/Chairman
60 Plus Association
Karen England
President
Capitol Resource Institute
Brian Rogers
President
The Jesse Helms Center
Seton Motley
President
Less Government
Richard Scurry
Robert K. Fischer
Meeting Coordinator
Conservatives of Faith
Dr. Richard Rounsavelle
Trustee
MRC
Joan Holt Lindsey
President
Lindsey Communications
Floyd Brown
Founder
The Western Journal
Mario Navarro da Costa
Director, Washington Bureau
Tradition, Family, Property
Ron Pearson
Executive Director
Conservative Victory Fund
The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman, Conservative Action Project
Chairman, CNP Action, Inc.
Marjorie Dannenfelser
President
Susan B. Anthony List
The Honorable Jim DeMint
Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute
Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)
Thomas Fitton
President, Judicial Watch, Inc.
President, Council for National Policy
The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop
White House Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)
The Honorable Bob McEwen
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Ohio
The Honorable Paul S. Teller, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Advancing American Freedom
The Honorable Mary Vought
Executive Director
Senate Conservatives Fund
Myron Ebell
Director, Center for Energy and Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Scott T. Parkinson
Thomas E. McClusky
Principal
Greenlight Strategies, LLC
Rachel A. Bovard
Senior Director of Policy
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
Senior Legal Fellow
Conservative Partnership Institute
Terry Schilling
President
American Principles Project
The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.
Chief Domestic Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1987-1988)
Jenny Beth Martin
Alfred S. Regnery
President
Republic Book Publishers
The Honorable Russ Vought
Director, Office of Management and Budget (2020-2021)
James C. Dobson, Ph.D.
Founder & President
Dr. James Dobson Family Institute
Kristen A. Ullman
President
Eagle Forum
The Honorable Jake Hoffman
Representative
Arizona House of Representatives
Andrew Roth
President
State Freedom Caucus Network
Ralph Benko
Chairman
The Capitalist League
Guillermo J. Aragon
Chief Strategy Officer
Martin Capital
Lourdes Cosio
Campaign for the American Future
Shawn A. Mitchell
Former National Chaplain, National Federation of Republican Assemblies
Jay Mount
President
MDS Communications Corporation
E.C. Sykes
General Partner
Aslan Ventures
Shannon O. Royce
President
Christian Employers Alliance
Judson Phillips
Founder
Tea Party Nation
Thomas Pyle
President
American Energy Alliance
Kay R. Daly
President
Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
Lee Beaman
CEO
Beaman Ventures
Gerard Kassar
State Chairman
NYS Conservative Party
Stephen T. Whelan
Chairman
The Witherspoon Institute
Elaine Donnelly
President
Center for Military Readiness
Charles J. Cooper
Assistant Attorney General, President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)
Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
Tim LeFever
Chairman
Capitol Resource Institute
Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director
Priests for Life
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
President of Corporate Affairs
American Target Advertising
Donna Rice Hughes
CEO
Enough Is Enough
Kelly Monroe Kullberg
General Secretary, American Association of Evangelicals (AAE)
Richard Norman
Founder and President
The Richard Norman Company
Rob Chambers
Exec. Vice President
AFA Action
Eunie Smith
President Emeritus
Eagle Forum
Andresen Blom
President
Hawaiian Values
Allen J. Hebert
President & Chairman
American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston
C. Preston Noell III
President
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