Although he's been a Republican all his adult life, John Danforth isn't as comfortable in the party as he used to be. In fact, he's appalled by what he considers its takeover by the Christian right.
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He woke up to this change while observing the party's rush to support the Christian right's efforts to invalidate the Florida court rulings in the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case, he said.
He was dismayed because he doesn't want religious people and politicians interfering with his own end-of-life decisions, and because the party's behavior contradicted its core principle of limiting federal power, he said.
Danforth: 'Wedge issues' used to shore up GOP base
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FLORIDA, United States, February 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The survival of pre-term baby Amillia Taylor, at 21 weeks gestation the youngest know child to survive premature birth, has produced an increase in media debate on the abortion issue.
Mainstream media outlets in the United States have acknowledged that the baby’s life raises “big questions” about legal abortion, . Weighing less than 10oz and just nine ½ inches long, Amillia was born one month earlier than the date considered viable for most babies, 25 weeks. About half of the babies born at 25 weeks will survive. Abortion laws are often based on an assumption of viability, with the cut-off being set at the point where babies would be likely to survive outside the womb.
Mainstream Media: Pre-term Baby’s Survival Will Have Big Impact on Abortion Debate
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Like all serious liberals, Danforth is reliably wrong every time. It is a fine art. Serious liberals work hard to ignore facts and thought. Remarkably, by the time they have had their second cup of organic masala breakfast chai, they have pushed away all vestiges of reasoning and personality. Then they are ready to absorb their views from the atmosphere. (Or from "All things Considered" on NPR, which is the same thing.) By quarter past nine in the morning, they are all chanting the same conclusion. It is wondrous to watch.