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U.S. Supreme Court
Nominee worked with girls advocacy group
Associated Press
Published October 22, 2005
WASHINGTON - Conservatives who oppose a youth organization that supports abortion rights and acceptance of lesbians said Friday that Harriet Miers' service with the Dallas chapter in 1987 had no bearing on her Supreme Court nomination.
Miers chaired the advisory committee of Girls Inc., a nonprofit organization dating to 1864 that serves about 800,000 girls a year, many from low-income families, according to the questionnaire she submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Miers received an award for her work with the local chapter and the Dallas Bar Association.
One of the more active conservative groups, the Mississippi-based American Family Association, recently launched a campaign indirectly targeting Girls Inc., which it called a "pro-abortion, prolesbian advocacy group."
Girls Inc., on its Web site, has defended its mission and dismissed the "false, inflammatory statements from people who are pursuing a narrow political agenda."
Questioned about Miers' past involvement with the group, Tim Wildmon, president of the AFA, said it was not an issue.
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