WHICH WILL BOTHER THE FRACTION WHO THINK IT SHOULD BE UNRESTRICTED:

Alito memo set goal to reverse Roe v. Wade: '85 abortion view surfaces (Susan Milligan, December 1, 2005, Boston Globe)

Samuel A. Alito Jr., the Supreme Court nominee, wrote a memo in 1985 to his superior in the Reagan administration saying that the Justice Department should set a goal of overturning the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, and in the meantime should weaken the law by supporting state restrictions.

''We should make clear that we disagree with Roe v. Wade and would welcome the opportunity to [present arguments on] the issue of whether, and if so to what extent, that decision should be overruled," Alito wrote in a memo to the solicitor general at the time, Charles Fried. The National Archives released the memo yesterday.

Abortion rights activists called the memo definitive evidence that Alito, if confirmed, would seek to limit abortion rights.