Kagan Under Obligation To Open Up

During her time as a White House deputy domestic policy adviser, Kagan urged Clinton to take centrist stances in several battles over issues like abortion and family leave when other administration officials or allies were pressing for a more aggressively liberal approach, according to documents at the Clinton Presidential Library.



The documents underscore concerns among some liberal activists that Kagan was an advocate of the policy triangulation of the Clinton White House and is not be a reliably liberal vote on the court.



A 1998 memo shows that Kagan was among advisers encouraging Clinton to deny Medicare funding for abortions in cases where a woman's health was at risk – in part to avoid a messy battle with Republicans.



At the time, Medicare rules covered abortion only where the mother’s life was in danger, and women’s groups & the Department of Health and Human Services wanted to expand the coverage.



Some of the cases involved women who had been raped in mental institutions.



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