Tony Perkins Lies About Pricella Owens, Next Stop Hell.

On the Family Research Council's (FRC) radio broadcast Washington Watch Weekly, FRC president Tony Perkins falsely claimed that Texas Supreme Court justice Priscilla Owen, nominated by President Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, voted with the majority in a 2000 case involving a minor seeking a judicial bypass allowing her to receive an abortion under Texas' parental notification law. In fact, Owen wrote a dissent in the case of Jane Doe 1(II), 19 S.W.3d 346, for which her then-colleague on the court, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, accused her and the other dissenters of advocating "an unconscionable act of judicial activism."