Roberts: Anti-Choice, Pro-Violence

The article above relates to an ad that has generated controversy because it highlights Roberts' role in a Supreme Court case in October 1991 that considered whether the Ku Klux Klan Act (which prohibits conspiracies to deprive "any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws") applied to violent anti-choice protests outside of abortion clinics. Roberts argued the nonsensical position that it the Act does not cover violent protests at abortion clinics because although physically only women can become pregnant and get abortions, the protests weren't specifically targeted at women. This is a ridiculous position and should be seen through quickly. Not only do the violent anti-choice activists specifically target women, a predominate number of them are poor. They are trying to deprive poor women of rights protected (as the Roe v. Wade decision established) under the Constitution. Even apart from his anti-choice views, Roberts shouldn't be on the Supreme Court for his ridiculous argument in support of violent misogynistic extremists.