Posted on 07/05/2004 10:38:19 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper
Dubuque, IA (LifeNews.com) -- In an interview with reporters over the weekend, John Kerry attempted to cover up his pro-abortion position and minimize the damage it causes with voters in the Midwest, who are more likely to be pro-life.
While campaigning with Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, a possible running mate, Kerry told the Dubuque Telegraph Herald, "I oppose abortion, personally. I don't like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception."
The surprising remarks don't match Kerry's record and consistent rhetoric in favor of abortion.
As a member of the Senate, Kerry has compiled only a 2% pro-life voting record since 1984, according to the National Right to Life Committee. Kerry has voted against every piece of pro-life legislation in the Senate recently, including the partial-birth abortion ban, and Unborn Victims of Violence Act, and he supported a measure endorsing the Roe v. Wade decision that struck down laws banning abortions.
The comments came as a surprise also to Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter, who told the Washington Post she couldn't recall Kerry having discussed when life begins at any point in the campaign.
"He's pro-choice and believes that abortion should be safe, legal and rare," Cutter added.
At the same time Kerry tried to minimize his pro-abortion views, he also said he couldn't legislate his alleged position against abortion.
"I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an atheist," he continued in the interview with the Iowa newspaper. "We have separation of church and state in the United States of America."
A spokesman for the Bush campaign pointed to the contradiction in Kerry's remarks and the disparity between his Iowa interview and numerous previous statements backing abortion.
"John Kerry's ridiculous claim to hold conservative values and his willingness to change his beliefs to fit his audience betrays a startling lack of conviction on important issues like abortion that will make it difficult for voters to give him their trust," Steve Schmidt told the Post.
Kerry stopped at a Catholic church for worship during his Iowa campaign stop and, afterwards, many parishioners asked Kerry about his pro-abortion views, in particular his vote against partial-birth abortion.
Kerry told the churchgoers that he would have supported the ban had it contained a health exception. However, many leading doctors and medical groups say that a health exception is not needed and that such abortions are normally performed on healthy mothers and healthy babies.
Should he be selected as the nominee for Vice President, Governor Vilsack won't help Kerry make inroads with pro-life voters.
Vilsack upset the pro-life community when he voted legislation that would have required abortion businesses to provide women with factual information about abortion risks and alternatives prior to performing one.
Women who regret their abortions frequently say that abortion practitioners did not provide them adequate information beforehand that may have prompted them to change their mind about the abortion.
Kerry is such a darn fool. How can he vote for abortion and believe life starts at conception without knowing you killed a human being? It is mind boggling. I am in hopes that all of these positions can be placed into one ad for
November. It will be the best Bush Chaney ad ever.
In my advancing years I sometimes forget where or what I read or heard, so maybe other readers could help me.
Did John Kerry in Iowa, say "I oppose abortion, personally. I don't like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception. I can't take my Catholic belief,...and legislate it on a Protestant or Jew or atheist."
Or did he say "I oppose beheading, personally. I don't like beheading. I believe life does end at decapitation. But I can't take my Catholic belief and legislate it on a Muslim or Samurai."
I am so confused! Which was it? With Kerry, does it make a difference?
And of the two, Catholic belief and moral principle, which one prevails---which one does he put into practice?
What does it mean, to hold a belief and a principle in direct opposition? and to hold a belief and act in direct contradiction to it?
Don't hold your breath. All that matters to them is that Kerry isn't Bush.
Kerry is:
Pro-abortion.
Pro- homosexual agenda.
Pro- higher taxes. ( except for billionaire heiresses and their free loading gigolo's.
Pro-assinity.
Pro-Energy policies. (except for those that work.)
Pro-family.( as long as it doesn't offend perverts.)
Pro-self defence. (as long as it doesn't offend our enemies.)
Pro-sanity. (as long as the insane are not offended.)
Pro-phylactic. (as long as STDs are not offended.)
Pro-America. (as long as anti-Americans are not offended.)
Pre-posterous.(as in preposterous.)
You're both right of course. To conservatives, voting records do matter. Truth matters. Obviously the blonde soccer mom contingent and hard core leftists couldn't care less.
Oh well it was a nice thought :-)
Anyone know what Nader's position on abortion is? I haven't been paying attention to his campaign.
Kerry doesn't let the Catholic Church teachings, the Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta or anything else get in the way of his Communist manifesto.
What a crock! No sane person deliberately, willfully seeks out that which violates their own deeply held beliefs.
If Kerry truely believed what he said, he wouldn't have continued to seek the Senate for all these years where he would vote in direct opposition to his faith in the first place.
kerry doing the old FLIP-FLOP again.
After being AWOL for months, he made a special trip to the Senate to VOTE NO ON THE PROPOSED BAN ON PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION.
I'd forgotten that he voted on that, Julie. Great reminder.
In other words, Kerry is totally unprincipled.
He says life begins at conception but will do nothing to safeguard defenseless lives in utero. So it's safe to assume Kerry does not place a priority on defending lives in peril.
Besides, he's got it bass ackwards: separation of church and state was intended to keep government out of religion, not religion out of government.
If you're Bush, here's what you do in a debate with Kerry. You ask him if he's so against abortion, why doesn't he do something about it, much less go out of his way to support it? Simple. Even a compassionate conservative could do it.
I believe there is also the voting for the war, but against the funding for troops.
Kerry is saying he believes there is a human life in the womb, but that he's not about to stand in the way of its murder.
Does anyone know if Archbishop Jerome Hanus, the Archbishop
of Dubuque, Iowa, made any statement concerning Kerry's taking communion in Archbishop Hanus' archdiocese? I read
somewhere that a Fr. Barta from the Archdiocese made a statement. If Archbishop Hanua dis not, why not? The bishops
in this country are weak and afraid and I, for one. cannot
figure out why they consistently refuse to proclaim the truth Jesus called them to.
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