Posted on 08/02/2004 10:56:15 PM PDT by cpforlife.org
WASHINGTON, (LifeSiteNews.com) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry gave an inteview yesterday on abortion on ABC News. Host Peter Jennings asked Kerry about his statement that "life begins at conception" to which Kerry responded by drawing a distinction between the beginning of human life and 'personhood'.
Jennings asked, "If you believe that life begins at conception, is even a first-trimester abortion not murder?" Kerry replied, "No, because it's not the form of life that takes personhood in the terms that we have judged it to be in the past. It's the beginning of life."
Catholic League president William Donohue remarked on Kerry's statements pointing out that when distinguishing between human life and personhood, Kerry mirrored the dichotomy that was advanced by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857 in the Dred Scott decision that legalized slavery. "In that ruling, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote that members of 'the negro race' were 'not regarded as a portion of the people or citizens of the Government.' Similarly, he concluded that 'it is too plain for argument, that they have never been regarded as part of the people or citizens of the State'," said Donohue.
Donohue also took Kerry to task for his statement that "being pro-choice is not pro-abortion." Donohue retorted, "But why isn't it? Voters need to know exactly what it is about abortion that Kerry doesn't like. What's holding back his enthusiasm? In other words, why isn't he pro-abortion? And what is it that is being aborted? A human life that is not a person? Does even Kerry believe this to be true?"
Donohue charges that Kerry is using the "tortured logic" around abortion in a vain attepmt to appeal to Catholics. But warns Donohue, "practicing Catholics know that a baby is a person, and persons have rights, beginning with the right to be born."
See the full transcript of the ABC interview: (BELOW) http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/US/ke rry_interview_040722-1.html
I've been thinking about your post on and off all day. I don't care how good a teacher or local government official you are, you should have been a lawyer Joanie. Not kidding. Your powers of observation and persuasion are amazing.
Check your mail.
On your profile page---a .357 magnum (S&W)? and a 30.06? Just an educated guess. And you can cross Saddam off your "enemies list". :-)
Beautiful page Joanie.
You're right on both counts. Good eye. :)
I'll not remove his name until he has departed this world and there's an eternal gulf between him and his victims.
Anyway, who died and left you list monitor? :)
~ joanie
=== We don't see you on the Pro-Life threads nearly enough!
I'll try to do better about bumping what I read in that respect.
I think folks at LF and here at FR will vouch for the fact I have a habit of making ALL threads into "pro-life" threads.
=)
So it's a live human being, it's just not a person. Riiiiiight.
well done, very nicely done, glad you could spare the time.
< /ANGER >
Unless the America public awakens from its apathetic stupor and is willing to take the time, and expend the effort, to ferret out the truth rather than swallowing the rhetoric, we are destined to live under leadership that governs very differently than it promises to ...
It is perhaps, more attainable today, than any time in the past. We really have not yet begun to see the changes the internet is making in our lives and our politics.
Just heard the Swiftboat Vets ad, if Kerry isn't stuned by
that we're in trouble, I know the koolaid drinkers won't buy it but the rest can't ignore the truth.
And you know my position, "Abortion, it's just murder.".
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