WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Douglas R. Scott, president of Life Decisions International (LDI), today responded to the accusation that President George W. Bush is trying to "stack" the Courts with conservatives by calling the charge "laughable." This is not because the President is appointing liberals, but "because Planned Parenthood's leaders need to stop being so hypocritical."

The last several weeks have not been pleasant for the pro-abortion leader. The nominees of President George W. Bush to federal judgeships, who were not even given the courtesy of a hearing when the U.S. Senate was controlled by the pro-abortion Democratic Party, are now routinely being confirmed by the upper chamber of Congress.

Feldt specifically attacked the President's nomination of James Leon Holmes, who she said "has worked through-out his career to eradicate women's reproductive freedom." Feldt said Holmes had "served as president of Arkansas Right to Life and as secretary of the Unborn Child Amendment Committee."

Another Bush nominee, Judge Carolyn Kuhl, is accused of using "her position in the Reagan-era Justice Department to advocate for the reversal of Roe v. Wade. While in private practice, Kuhl argued in favor of a 'gag rule' that would have prohibited health care providers who receive Title X funds from counseling women about abortion," Feldt charged.

Of course, PPFA continued to oppose the confirmation of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen who Feldt said "has demonstrated her willingness to dismantle women's civil rights by legislating from the bench." Last year the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected Owen, but Bush re-nominated her after Republicans regained control of the Senate.

"The U.S. Senate must give civil rights more than lip service by rejecting all of these nominations," Feldt said. "President Bush is poisoning the judicial system, weaving a pernicious web of attacks on women's reproductive rights. We call on the Senate to require every judicial nominee to affirm fundamental civil rights, including a woman's right to make her own childbearing choices. And we call on the president to stop stacking the courts against womens civil rights."

"Maybe my memory is failing," said Scott, "but I do not recall even one time when Feldt bemoaned the fact that Bill Clinton spent eight years stacking the courts when he was president." Scott said that unlike the Democrats who use every weapon within their arsenal in an attempt to defeat the President's court nominees, Republican Senate leaders were much less willing to flagrantly challenge Clinton's candidates.

The most shocking comment Gloria Feldt made must be her concern about jurists who believe in "legislating from the bench." Scott's response was obvious: "How does Gloria think Roe v. Wade came about in the first place? Without legislating from the bench, there would never have been a Roe v. Wade."