Washington D.C., Nov 10, 2004 / 22:00 pm
Pro-life activists are upset over President George W. Bush's appointment of Alberto Gonzales as attorney general. He succeeds John Ashcroft.
Pro-lifers are worried that the new White House counsel will not aggressively uphold the administration's pro-life stance, reported WorldNetDaily.com.
Gonzales was Bush's general counsel when he was governor of Texas and also served as secretary of state.
Gonzales is a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, where he voted to allow a teenager to get an abortion without notifying her parents, circumventing the notification law in that state. At the time, he criticized the position taken by his colleague Justice Priscilla Owen, who voted against the abortion.