After a week that thrust gun control and abortion rights to the forefront on the Hill, Democrats are beginning to address both on multiple legislative tracks while liberal advocacy groups work to redefine the two often-incendiary issues.
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Rather than tie the issue to gun control, Keenan connected abortion rights to stem cell research, the Patriot Act and the GOP’s Terri Schiavo intervention — examples in which she thinks Republicans “overstepped” and alienated the majority of voters.
“If you read the decision, it not only tolerates government interference, it applauds it,” said Jackie Payne, director of government relations for Planned Parenthood.
Similarly, gun control advocates have challenged lawmakers to take the partisan sting out of gun-rights measures and interpret the Virginia Tech violence as a call to action.
Dems ponder bills on guns and abortion
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More of calling good bad and calling bad good...
It was perhaps appropriate that those paragons of the leftist media establishment in Canada, the Toronto Star newspaper and the CBC, would christen as a “secular saint” a woman who stood solidly for such “sacraments” of the left as abortion and homosexuality. However, for those aware of those aspects of June Callwood’s history and her identification as one of the who’s who of Canada’s left, it was striking that The Star, the National Post and others conspicuously omitted mentioning her abortion and gay rights activism in their numerous articles on Callwood's passing.
Although Callwood was praised for a number of truly good things she did, Canadians of conscience might be forgiven for asking how her concerns for the poor, sick and downtrodden squared with her support for the slaughter of unborn living children. It is also difficult to justify her adamant support for the gay lifestyle that has led to many tragic deaths and spawned a movement that is greatly undermining natural married and family life.
Abortion Activist Called Canada’s Mother Teresa
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