Elena Kagan's Partial Birth Deception

Saw this last night, at Astute Bloggers, "COULD THE KAGAN NOMINATION BE ABORTED DUE TO KAGAN'S NEWLY DISCOVERED PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION DECEPTION? YES!"

But see Byron York, "Slick Elena? Kagan evades questions on abortion memo" (via Memeorandum):

The memo, reported yesterday by National Review, has caused a stir in conservative circles because it appeared that Kagan, then a White House policy aide, put words in the medical group’s mouth in order to soften its position on the controversial procedure. But when Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch brought the subject up with Kagan, he had a hard time getting her to admit that she did, in fact, write the document in question.

“Did you write that memo?” Hatch asked.

“Senator, with respect,” Kagan began, “I don’t think that that’s what happened — ”

“Did you write that memo?”

“I’m sorry — the memo which is?”

“The memo that caused them to go back to the language of ‘medically necessary,’ which was the big issue to begin with — ”

“Yes, well, I’ve seen the document — ”

“But did you write it?”

“The document is certainly in my handwriting.”

More at the link.

And Kagan's been all over the place on "forthright" testimony, against her previous writings as well: "Change! Elena Kagan Backs 'Vapid and Hollow' Hearings at Her Own Confirmation!"