posted on: Thursday, August 25, 2005

Several darlings of the conservative philanthropic world gathered in Washington, DC yesterday to defend Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’s record on women’s rights (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/24/AR2005082402017.html). Women for Roberts—established recently with help from the same PR firm that worked with the anti-John Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth—includes groups such as the right-wing Judicial Confirmation Network and Independent Women’s Forum.

Considering IWF’s rather intriguing interpretation of women’s rights (see the article on its website that suggests women just aren’t cut out to be firefighters or police officers http://www.iwf.org/issues/issues_detail.asp?ArticleID=226), Roberts might want to find some new feminist friends, fast.