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Posted on 07/18/2004 1:02:08 PM PDT by cpforlife.org
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Senator John Kerry has attached his name to a "clone and kill" bill that pro-life organizations oppose because it allows scientists to clone unborn children only to be killed to obtain their stem cells for use in research.
The likely Democratic presidential nominee, on Tuesday, signed on as a cosponsor of the Human Cloning Ban and Stem Cell Research Protection Act, S. 303.
Some have called the legislation a ban on human cloning. Though it prohibits the grisly practice for reproductive purposes, the legislation allows the "clone and kill" practice for research.
Kerry's cosponsorship of the legislation comes at an interesting time.
He has joined other lawmakers and some in the research community who are putting intense pressure on President Bush to reverse his August 2001 policy prohibiting federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
Kerry has been using the issue to paint Bush as a religious extremist and claims his pro-life views prevent patients with various diseases from obtaining potentially beneficial treatments that scientists may someday derive from embryonic stem cells.
That may explain why Kerry suddenly signed on to legislation that has been sitting for over a year and isn't expected to receive a Senate vote anytime soon.
The "clone and kill" legislation was introduced in February 2003 and the last senator to cosponsor the bill, Vermont's Jim Jeffords, attached his name to the legislation over a year ago.
President Bush and pro-life groups support a competing bill sponsored by Kansas Republican Sam Brownback.
Senator Brownback's legislation bans both forms of human cloning -- reproductive and so-called therapeutic -- and has 28 co-sponsors.
The House of Representatives already passed a total human cloning ban similar to the Brownback bill, and pro-life lawmakers want the Senate to follow suit.
"[Utah] Senator [Orrin] Hatch and others in the U.S. Senate need to stop blocking a total ban on human cloning so we can proceed to protect the dignity of human life," New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith said. "We also need an international ban on human cloning."
Kerry says he believes that life starts at conception
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1165523/posts
DRUDGE REPORT QUOTES KERRY: "...LIFE DOES BEGIN AT CONCEPTION..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1165427/posts
This beast really does flip-flop a lot.
Please let me know if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.
Uh...didn't Kerry recently say that life begins at conception?
So now, not only is he unwilling to "impose his beliefs" through legislation which would outlaw murder, but he is actually sponsoring legislation that would require murder.
I wonder what it's like to have a mind such as John Kerry's. But I hope I never find out.
Someone should....no can't say that; I will....no can't say that either; He'd better watch...damn can't say that either; I hope EFnK has an acc...no, too threatening also; maybe someone will...crap, can't say that either.
Kerry 1972: Abortion is Wrong; Kerry 2004: Abortion is a Choice (Flip-Flop Alert)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1123135/posts
Kerry Will Hold Pro-Abortion Rally Prior to Sunday's Abortion March
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1123175/posts
Kerry hypocrite on abortion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1077253/posts
ABORTION: KERRY FLIPS AGAIN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1139625/posts
From A Brief Catechism for Catholic Voters:
"A disqualifying issue is one which is of such gravity and importance that it allows for no political maneuvering. It is an issue that strikes at the heart of the human person and is non-negotiable. A disqualifying issue is one of such enormity that by itself renders a candidate for office unacceptable regardless of his position on other matters."
From Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics (An On-Line Guide):
The FIVE NON-NEGOTIABLE ISSUES are:
1. Abortion
2. Euthanasia
3. Fetal Stem Cell Research
4. Human Cloning
5. Homosexual "Marriage"
The apostate john kerry disqualifies himself on each of the 5.
good collection of posts!
I still can't believe Kerry said life begins at conception. Wouldn't it be great if Bush quotes Kerry at the debate on this!
"I still can't believe Kerry said life begins at conception. Wouldn't it be great if Bush quotes Kerry at the debate on this!"
I SURE HOPE BUSH ADDRESSES THIS AT LENGTH!
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Frankenkerry Ping.
sanger I think, forget his first name, might be peter
Life begins at conception-abortion begins at deception.
This bill should be called the "cannibalism bill". The clone of a human is another human-to cut parts off that clone for use on the original human is to cannibalize. Morally no different from eating the clone.
Now John Kerry has sponsored a bill supporting the legalization of cannibalism-check your dictionary.
"Senator John Kerry has attached his name to a 'clone and kill' bill that...allows scientists to clone unborn children only to be killed to obtain their stem cells for use in research."
Yet the bill is titled "Human Cloning Ban and Stem Cell Research Protection Act."
It prohibits cloning for reproductive purposes but allows the "clone and kill" practice for research.
A competing bill bans both forms of human cloning -- reproductive and so-called therapeutic.
This means, I take it, that the research form of cloning is the same thing as the therapeutic form.
How many cases of human cloning for reproductive purposes have been successful? How many of the research/therapeutic form have been successful (ie, actually had good therapeutic results)? What is Kerry's objection to cloning for reproductive purposes?
Where are the journalists of yesteryear? ;)
Wait until Kerry comes out and says cloning isn't conception therefore he really is consistent (and nuanced).
Peter Singer. He is Australian-born and currently a "bioethics" professor at Princeton.
See: Peter Singer’s Bold Defense of Infanticide
http://www.equip.org/free/DD801.htm
Well, with Kerry being almost completely absent from the Senate ever since he started running for president, it's nice to know that he is willing to come back to DC for the REALLY important issues... please excuse me while I gag. :-(
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This map has 17.5 states blacked out. The population of these states is equal to the number of “legal” surgical abortions since 1973. Perhaps this visual perspective helps one to grasp the number 44,000,000-that's 44 MILLION PEOPLE who are gone, dead--robbed of their God given Constitutional right to LIFE.