John Kerry Attempts to Cover Up Pro-Abortion Position in Iowa Interview

LifeNews.com ^ | July 5, 2004 | Steven Ertelt

[oldironsides]

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.

[oldbill]

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?

[Graymatter]

Let's see, he's saying that he can't legislate his Catholic belief, due to church-state separation. IOW only his Catholic belief is that abortion is wrong, and his Catholic belief is not his moral principle. His moral principle is "choice," or abortion on individual demand.

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?

[mollynme]

..it might just tick off his pro choice supporters.

Don't hold your breath. All that matters to them is that Kerry isn't Bush.

[Talking_Mouse]

I oppose slavery, personally. I don't like slavery. I believe slaves are fully human. I can't take my Abolitionists belief and legislate it on a slaveholder. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.

"John Kerry believes that slavery should be legal, the slaves held securely, and rare." said his campaign manager.

[F.J. Mitchell]

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.)

[TheSpottedOwl]

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.

[sergeantdave]

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.

[Dave Olson]

"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.

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.

[jocko12]

kerry doing the old FLIP-FLOP again.

[JulieRNR21]

Kerry is moving to the center to court Catholics & undecideds but his ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN HIS WORDS.

After being AWOL for months, he made a special trip to the Senate to VOTE NO ON THE PROPOSED BAN ON PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION.

[Peach]

I'd forgotten that he voted on that, Julie. Great reminder.

[finnigan2]

I'm surprised that no one is keeping a list of this weathervane senators background, ie:
- self admitted war criminal and murderer of wounded Vietcong combatant;
- committed treason by meeting secretly with North Vietnamese delegation at the Paris peace talks while the war was still going on;
- Was a leading member of an anti-Vietnam war group that was partially funded by communist-linked front organizations and which seriously debated assassinating US senators at their anti war meetings;
- In all his years in the Senate has never sponsored a Bill of any consequence, has the most liberal voting record (when he votes) of any senator and has a voting record on virtually every issue that can be seen at one time to support, and then to oppose the same measure;
- Has refused to release all of his Vietnam era military records and been recently condemned by virtually all of his superiors, peers and subordinates as not worthy of at least one of his medals and unfit to be President;
- Has refused to release details of his medical treatments for a condition some suspect is cancer and will not divulge the legal circumstances of his first divorce while his present wife has failed to disclose her sources and amounts of income;
- Took out a 6 million dollar loan to finance his campaign using his wife's home as security - a clear breach of campaign finance laws;

I'm sure their's lots that I've missed; feel free to add.

[Liz]

"I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an atheist," (Kerry) continued......"We have separation of church and state in the United States of America."

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.

[dr_who_2]

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.

[anniegetyourgun]

I believe there is also the voting for the war, but against the funding for troops.

[anniegetyourgun]

Let me translate clearly:

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.

[asmith92008]

The Democrats "opposed" slavery but supported slave owner's rights. Today, they admit life begins at conception but support abortion. Well, they're nothing if not consistent. Too bad this is the one issue Kerry refuses to flip-flop on.

[Lady In Blue]

No, he won'thold the Catholic vote! Just about all of the Catholic newspapers and EWTN have continually over the last several months been spotlighting so-called Catholic politicians who vote pro-abortion and believe you me,they don't put Kerry and the other pro-aborts in a favorable light.

[Renatus]

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.