Posted on 04/27/2007 5:26:47 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- There's one thing all of the Democratic candidates seeking the party's nomination for president have in common -- they all strongly support abortion. The candidates put those pro-abortion views on display last night in the first primary presidential debate of the election season.
Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards left off the debate with the first question on abortion issues going to him.
He said he disagreed with the Supreme Court's ruling upholding a national ban on partial-birth abortions and promised, if elected, to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who would promote abortion on the bench.
"I would say first that this decision by the Supreme Court is actually a perfect example of what's at stake in this election. The kind of people that will be appointed to the United States Supreme Court by the next president will control whether [abortion is allowed]," he said.
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois also opposed the ruling and said the broader issue is whether abortion should be legal in general -- and he said he supported that.
Joe Biden, a Delaware senator, got the next abortion question and indicated he "strongly supported Roe v. Wade" which allowed unlimited abortion throughout pregnancy.
He said he would "make sure that the people I sent to be nominated to the Supreme Court shared my values" and supported pro-abortion rulings like Roe.
"That's why I led the fight to defeat Bork. Thank God he's not on the court or this would -- Roe v. Wade would be gone by now," Biden added about the battle over a pro-life nominee for the high court defeated in the 1980s.
Biden pointed to his opposition to Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, all of whom voted to uphold the partial-birth abortion ban.
Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, who backs abortion, told the audience that he didn't regret his decision to vote for Alito's appointment but said he was "disappointed terribly by the decision." He claimed Alito violated comments he made in his confirmation hearings to respect precedent.
Asked to name his favorite Supreme Court justice, pro-abortion Gov. Bill Richardson chimed in and mentioned pro-abortion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a former ACLU attorney. He said he made the choice because of her dissent in the partial-birth abortion case -- a point on which Senator Dodd concurred.
Dennis Kucinich, a pro-abortion Ohio congressman, said during the debate that any of his appointments to the Supreme Court would reflect his pro-abortion views. "I don't know how it could be otherwise."
Finally, during a question and answer phase about the biggest mistake each candidate has made during his political life, Senator Obama talked about Terri Schiavo.
"I think professionally the biggest mistake that I made was when I first arrived in the Senate. There was a debate about Terri Schiavo, and a lot of us, including me, left the Senate with a bill that allowed Congress to intrude where it shouldn't have," he said.
"And I think I should have stayed in the Senate and fought more for making sure [Terri's parents couldn't take their case to federal court to save her life]," he explained.
Conservatives are actually the ONLY people who believe in the equal rights and protection of women, homosexuals and minorities. We neither expect them to be or treat them as if they were second rate citizens. We are the ones who are outraged that over a third of aborted babies are black, over half are female and that almost all women who have abortions ultimately deal with tremendous guilt.
I bet we'll see fewer and fewer of the brightest and the best going into medicine. Once we started calling abortion on demand a "medical procedure," we debased the entire profession.
Murder for thee, but not for me?
So if someone choose to kill them or their family, they wouldn’t object since they hold life to have so little value?
This is an honest question. How can so many catholics vote Democratic? I really, truly don’t understand that. The Democratic party supports everything the Catholic church is opposed to.
Ooops. That’s Catholics with a capital “C”. No disrespect intended, just lack of proofreading skills.
Strange that they don’t quote Hillary... I’m sure she said the exact same thing as the others, but it seems odd they would quote everyone except her.
There used to be a time when the womb was the safest place for a baby, now the womb has become a death chamber thanks to John Edwards and the rest of the baby killers.
My sister refused to go to a medical school that taught or practiced abortion in its hospital, opting for a much more expensive school that was pro-life. There are still many wonderful docs out there who find a way.
oh brother! I can’t believe Obama Osama went there!
And Rudy espouses this ghoulish behavior. Shame on any conservative that sells out their values for a cheap (no guarantee) win between two liberal candidates that have no differences.
Hillary probably gets the democratic nomination. Probably gets it with the highest dislikes and negatives in history. And some out there, out of fear the msm is drumming up, want us to take this GLORIOUS opportunity and waste it on some ghoul like Ghuilani??? Let's make sure the American people have a clear choice between a conservative and a liberal. Wake up folks. We got plenty of time to do the right thing!
Democrats:
I call them the Death Eaters.
This is when I am not calling them the Marxists that they really are.
“and promised, if elected, to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who would promote abortion on the bench.”
Every day is Halloween in the Democratic Party. They’re a bunch of ghouls!
I know some of them are just evil, but I think some are just useful idiots who don’t know what PBA is. Or willfully don’t want to know.
I’ll add that Conservatives treat people as fully capable human beings and individuals, not as some member of a group. When a black person is identified ONLY as a member of the Black group, they are having their humanity taken away. They are being purposefully limited in their life choices and options.
Very true.
Me neither. Moral arguments aside, I can't believe that bunch takes such a hard line position on something as unpopular as PBA.
As much as I despised Slick, he had far more political smarts than to (at least publically) take such a hard line position on this subject.
That just can’t a real organization. Please tell me it is a joke website.
That, I can’t answer. I just don’t know.
And in the end, those who support evil out of ignorance and stupidity will have to answer for it as well.
There is no excuse for supporting evil.
This is an honest question. How can so many catholics vote Democratic?
Because most of those are UNION EMPLOYEES.. like Teachers electricians government workers!They vote the Pocket Book... The Congressmen dems who are catholic these people are just evil and suffer pride
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