Posted on 09/21/2006 9:18:35 AM PDT by presidio9
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who supports abortion rights, on Monday during a speech at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., said both abortion-rights supporters and abortion-rights opponents sometimes use "misleading and unconstructive" language and urged both sides to find "common ground," on the issue, the Boston Globe reports (Klein, Boston Globe, 9/19). Kerry during an interview in July 2004, while running for president, said, "I oppose abortion, personally. I don't like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception. ... But I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an atheist ... who doesn't share it. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America." Kerry has a 100% voting record with NARAL Pro-Choice America and frequently has spoken of his commitment to abortion rights (Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 7/6/04). Gary Bauer, president of the conservative American Values group, said he doesn't "want to discourage anyone from giving a speech in moving in my direction, but this is one of these issues where words aren't enough." Kerry in the Senate has voted against bills that would restrict abortion rights. NARAL Pro-Choice America President Nancy Keenan said Kerry's speech highlights what her group "has been saying for years: This decision is a personal one between a woman, her family, her doctor and her God." Kerry after the speech said he is aiming to push advocates on both sides of the abortion rights debate to "be more honest about the complexity of the moral decision here" and understand the genuineness of one another's convictions.
Kerry is too infirm of purpose to pull off triangulation. Or anything else, for that matter.
So he was for Abortion before he is against it? Sort of. If we vote for him maybe he will be.
Then how can you legislate against theft, murder, terrorism, etc..?
Boy he's ridiculous.
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LOL!
Kerry arguing for "genuineness" is like Hillary arguing for tenderness.
It's a foreign language.
James 2:26
For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
Kerry speaks out of both sides of his mouth.
Actually, from what I understand practicing Jews and the serious Protestant denominations are pro-life as well. What he really means is that most of his support comes from athiests and self-worshipers.
Did you know he was in Vietnam?
On what basis does he believe "life begins at conception"? If he believed it as a scientific fact (as I do) - that there is an unbroken chain of human development between conception and birth - then why would there be a hindrance to legislating on that belief.
What's honest about saying life begins at conception but being unwilling
to lift a finger to protect it?
As far as I know the only religion that is borderline on the issue is Unitarian. So again he talks outta his butt.
Is she saying that NARL worships Satan?
Het turd burglar kerry! It is murder end of story! If you read your Bible like a professed Catholic such as you say you are you would know that without a doubt.
James 2:20
Do you want proof, you ignoramus, that faith without works is useless?
Dont kill your unborn children, no matter how screwed up your own life is. Its a sin against God.
Is that misleading? If you consider it unconstructive then you need to read your bible more. This is a very simple, honest and moral thing to decide.
Kerry is still an idiot.
OK, John, how about we all agree that partial birth abortion is a hideous abomination, and outlaw it. About three-quarters of the US agrees with that, so let's find common ground there.
The good news is every time he talks about his Catholicism, he makes more Catholics think about voting Republican.
"Unconstructive" Huh..??? Is that a word?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Misleading? Like the term "abortion rights", for example?
Kerry's a jerk just like Clinton, but Clinton is/was a lot more clever. Clinton was on Larry King bashing Pope Benedict last night, just like he bashed John Paul II. It was so funny, in the middle of it he started, literally, to choke.
When life begins is a QUANTIFIABLE FACT. It is not subject to opinion polls.
Whether it is to be dignified and granted rights is what the politicians are deciding. Same as with any "quality of life" issue.
I hate this lying scumbag traitor. John Kerry betrayed America.
He could have saved everyone's time and just said "I'm running again."
Isn't that Kerry's entire life?
The truly scary thing is that there was a day when abortion supporters realized that admitting human life begins at conception was to lose the debate. Now, they think they can give on that point and still have a case. How morally bankrupt.
The only possible argument for abortion is to say the 'life' that begins at conception is not truly 'human.' That of course runs aground of basic biology but there are philosophical and theologicaly precedents to twist in that direction.
I noticed the same thing. The writer states that John Kerry "said both abortion-rights supporters and abortion-rights opponents sometimes use "misleading and unconstructive" language...". Now, if John Kerry actually used the terms, "abortion rights" and "abortion rights opponents" (I can't tell from this article if he actually did) then he and the writer both used the preferred loaded pro-abortion killing terminology of the media which paints pro-life advocates as opponents of "rights". Which is just another way of saying that Kerry would have been for "misleading and unconstructive" language before he was against it in the same sentence.
Cordially,
I do not support abortion in any form but, when it come to John Kerry I just wonder what his mother was thinking when she gave birth to this heretical POS?
"Hi, I'm John Kerry and I've rubbed ashes on my forehead just like
the common people do on Ash Wednesday."
When I was in high school, one of the Jesuits liked to point out that Ash Wednesday (not a Holy Day) and Palm Sunday were typically the busiest days in most churches, because social Catholics only bother going when they get some sort of free handout.
Right On.
Is he suggesting that abortion is not murder?
How dare him impose his beliefs on me with regard to guns, taxes, property rights, employment decisions, etc. The left disavows moral policy making only when it suits their agenda. He is a disingenuous boob, and he appeals only to the smallest intellect in this country.
Sometimes there is no "common ground". I would semi-respect an abortion rights activist who had the guts to say, "A fetus is a form of human life, but we think the woman carrying the fetus has the right to have the fetus removed for any reason she likes". Good luck getting anyone honest and brave enough to spell out what supporting abortion on demand really means!
I'm sure he'd feel the same way of the issue was white-supremacy, anti-semitism, of global warming.....
Thanks for the link, but I will never believe anything Hillary Clinton says. If she is being sincere, she better get her "husband" on the same page or tell him to STFU.
Hillary Clinton "being sincere?" Does not compute.
I always try to use the term "pro-abortion" instead of "pro-choice," because with every abortion there are two people who have no say in the matter whatsoever: The baby and his/her father.
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