Did Kagan re-write medical report on partial-birth?  The smoking gun. In an article for NRO by Shannen Coffin who was a deputy attorney general in the Bush administration responsible for defending the federal partial-birth abortion act in court, Coffin supplies documents alleged to be in Elena Kagan's own handwriting effectively re-writing the original opinion issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Kagan allegedly coerced ACOG to issue a statement directly contradictory to their true findings: On a document [PDF] captioned "Suggested Options" -- which she apparently faxed to the legislative director at ACOG -- Kagan proposed that ACOG include the following language (in their publicly released memo): "An intact D&X [the medical term for the procedure], however, may be the best or most appropriate procedure in a particular circumstance to save the life or preserve the health of a woman." This statement, which was included in the...(Read Full Post)