Video: Zell Miller addresses Sav-A-Life banquet in Macon, Georgia
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/multimedia/16853061.htm
Posted on 03/16/2007 5:16:44 PM PDT by cgk
By Peter J. Smith
MACON, Georgia, March 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former US Senator Zell Miller blamed abortion as the reason why the United States faces shortages of military manpower, the impending collapse of its social security system, and depends on illegal immigration.
The pro-life former Democrat appeared as the featured speaker for a fundraising banquet last Tuesday for the Sav-A-Life Care Center, which counsels women contemplating abortion. The Center was raising money to buy ultrasound equipment in order to become a health clinic.
“How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?” Miller asked his audience. “Here is the brutal truth that no one dares to mention: We’re too few because too many of our babies have been killed. Over 45 million since Roe v. Wade in 1973.”
“If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending our country, they would be filling our jobs, they would be paying into Social Security,” the former Georgia governor said. “Still, we watch as 3,700 babies are killed every single day in America. It is unbelievable that a nation under God would allow this.”
Miller praised the number of cures developed through adult stem-cell therapies, and condemned embryonic stem research as abortion on a smaller scale.
"It is not a proper fate for a human being made in God's image...killing is wrong when it is called abortion and it is just as wrong when it is called research."
Miller became a pro-life champion in the US Senate after a conversion that began in the 1990s, and has generated controversy by criticizing his party’s absolute dependence on ultraliberal activists and the abortion lobby, esp. in his 2003 book A National Party No More: the Conscience of a Conservative Democrat. The former senator even went so far as to break ranks with his party to endorse George Bush’s re-election in 2004 and give the keynote address at the Republican National Convention.
Linking abortion to the population shortage faced in the United States, however, has been politically dangerous and unpopular. Republican state Sen. Nancy Schaefer made a similar statement nearly a year ago only to retract her statements after an unfavorable reception in the mainstream media.
However, Miller made it clear he will not back down from his statements, and urged other Americans to take a courageous stand against abortion.
“And sometimes in the life of a nation, a time comes when men and women of conscience and courage have to stand up and be counted and say, ‘Enough! No more, this cannot continue.’”
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In preparation for endorsing Hillary and wooing those who don't completely trust her on abortion. I've never trusted Zell.
It's a crazy conspiracy I've always had... Zell just didn't want John Kerry to win in '04 (for Clinton's sake in '08).
Zell has old loyalty to the Clintons, and he never publicly renounced those ties, despite all of his other changes.
We don't "depend" on illegal labor, businesses use illegal labor because it's cheaper. If illegal labor vanished tomorrow, there'd be problems for a couple of months, but the economy would work itself out quickly.
Think of all the criminals, rapists and other miscreants who aren't around to kill, rape and rob because they were aborted.
So abortion is not all bad.
why does the headline say "controversial?" It seems like he is just pointing out the obvious.
45 million dead babies is a fair price for you for not having had Al Gore win the Presidency in 2000?
I thought that was strange as well, considering the source.
Think of all the murderers and rapists killed in the Ukrainian famine.
I guess that Holodomor wasn't all bad.
Thanks for the ping!
Please tell me you forgot to add a sarcasm tag. You honestly don't believe people should be killed because they might commit a crime do you?
Because Al Gore may have won the presidency in 2000 because children may have grown up liberal, that is worth the death of over 47,000,000 children? How do we know that society wouldn't be in the mess it is in today if we showed more respect to life in its smallest and most vulnerable form?
Don't expect rational thought from a dead soul.
Prove it... He will not endorse her, I would almost bet my FR membership card on it.
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