Posted on 05/04/2009 1:06:31 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Fresh from switching from the Republican to the Democratic Party, pro-abortion Sen. Arlen Specter upset pro-life advocates again over the weekend. He blamed the death of pro-life former Congressman and vice-presidential candidate Jack Kemp on pro-life policies that he claimed are anti-science.
Kemp died over the weekend about a bout with cancer, with which he was only diagnosed in January. By the time it was caught, it had spread throughout his body.
Now, Specter has, as some pro-life advocates say, "shamefully" used the occasion of Kemp's death to justify his political switch.
"Well, I was sorry to disappoint many people. Frankly, I was disappointed that the Republican Party didn't want me as their candidate," he told the news program "Face the Nation."
"But as a matter of principle, I'm becoming much more comfortable with the Democrats' approach. And one of the items that I'm working on, Bob, is funding for medical research," Specter added. "If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine."
Specter, who has long been a thorn in the side of the pro-life movement for pushing for making taxpayers finance embryonic stem cell research that destroys human life, raised the ire of bioethics author and attorney Wesley J. Smith.
"One can certainly argue that the cancer research budget should be higher. One can also justify changing parties because one believes in increased spending," Smith said in response.
"But to say that but for GOP policies Jack Kemp "would be alive today," is shameful demagoguery of a self-obsessed politician willing to use the death of a former colleague to justify his own desperate political maneuvers," Smith commented.
Smith says he's not surprised by Specter's comments because they are similar to ones he and others made after former President Ronald Reagan died.
"The same kind of bovine manure was shoveled after Ronald Reagan died of Alzheimer's when some said that 'but for Bush's stem cell funding policies,' Reagan would have been cured," Smith recalled. "Some politicians just stink."
Nothing will happen to him now that he’s a Dem.
According to a guest on Bennett’s radio show this AM, cancer of the esophagus.
> According to a guest on Bennett’s radio show this AM,
> cancer of the esophagus.
Last I heard, there was nothing stem cell research could have done for that kind of cancer.
Stem cell research has always been legal. There was just no federal funding for it.
So, where does it say in the constitution that the government is required to fund any kind of medical research?
Specter the defector spoke in West chester Pa and said he was in favor of a Personal Scorecard for medicare Payin/Premiums minus Payouts/claims then Factor an actuarial scale of your Lifestyle expectancy.. then a yeah or nay vote on do they treat you and certain specified treatments you get Euthanized no questions asked.. this guy is a self serving Monster.
Pro Lifers will be around until this changes...and Pro Choicer will Choice themselves to extinction... kinda Like Aztec warriors the winner is sacrificed!
These democrats will use any tragedy to try to make there point. Maybe Jack Kemp would still be alive, but, how many babies would have died to make that happen? That is, even if they could ever make it work. I don’t understand the push for embryonic stem cell research. So far they haven’t been able to use the cells they are to unstable. The experiments don’t work. However, they are having excellent results from cord and adult cells. I just don’t get it.
Nothing bad, to be sure. What I meant is that he is showing how he can speak obscenely, which appears to be a basic criterion for being a powerful Democrat. The worse he speaks, the better for him, yes?
It is obvious that Bush and Cheney killed Kemp, based on the article.
Just shows how stupid he is.
Death. Everyone gets one per.
What a moron Specter is.
(Ted) Kennedy: Now is the time for health care reform
Politico | May 3, 2009 | Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
Posted on 05/04/2009 12:55:17 PM PDT by Zakeet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244005/posts
How Kemp Helped Rescue America
Newsmax | Sunday, May 3, 2009 | Jeffrey Bell
Posted on 05/04/2009 12:26:41 PM PDT by Jim 0216
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243989/posts
y’know, that’s probably the best comment that can be made under the circumstances. his lowness knows no bounds. badray et al called this one dead on, years ago, when bush campaigned for him. DOH!
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