Posted on 09/22/2010 8:34:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
Suppose a 40-year-old teacher wanted take his class of 30 14-year-old high school freshmen on an 80-mile daylong field trip into the next state to visit a national historical site. Do you think the school would require him to notify the parents of these children he was taking them away for the day?
Now, suppose another 40-year-old man wanted to take just one 14-year-old high student on an 80-mile daylong trip across the same state line to visit an abortion clinic because he had impregnated the 14-year-old, wanted her to get an abortion and sought to evade the law in his state that requires parental notification before an underage girl can undergo an abortion.
In 2005, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., introduced the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, which as she explained on the House floor was designed to address situations similar to the one above.
Ros-Lehtinen's bill said: "Whoever knowingly transports a minor across a state line, with the intent that such minor obtain an abortion, and thereby in fact abridges the right of a parent under a law requiring parental involvement in a minor's abortion decision, in force in the state where the minor resides, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both."
Now, how would a "moderate" politician vote on this bill, which succeeded in the House by a majority of 270 to 157?
Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware was one of only 11 Republicans voting against it.
In 2001, Representatives Dave Weldon, R-Fla., and Bart Stupak, D-Mich., co-sponsored a bill to ban human cloning. It said: "It shall be unlawful for any person or entity, public or private, in or affecting interstate commerce, knowingly -- (1) to perform or attempt to perform human cloning; (2) to participate in an attempt to perform human cloning; or (3) to ship or receive for any purpose an embryo produced by human cloning or any product derived from such embryo."
Now, how would a "moderate" politician vote on this bill, which succeeded in the House by a majority of 265 to 162? Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware was one of only 19 Republicans voting against it.
In 2006, intending to pre-empt the predictable effort by liberal activists and unelected federal judges to declare same-sex marriage a constitutional right, Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., introduced a constitutional amendment. It said: "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman."
Now, how would a "moderate" politician vote on this bill, which won a majority in the House of 236 to 187?
Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware was one of only 27 Republicans voting against it.
Both before and after Castle was defeated in Delaware's Republican Senate primary by a pro-life, pro-marriage constitutionalist name Christine O'Donnell, the establishment press in this country insisted Castle was a "moderate."
"Ms. O'Donnell defeated Mike Castle, a veteran congressman and example of the moderate and conciliatory approach that Northeast Republicans once brought to Washington," The New York Times lamented in an editorial.
Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne described Castle on the eve of last week's primary as follows: "A genial and courtly man in the manner of the elder President Bush (who held a fundraiser for him in Kennebunkport, Maine), the nine-term member of Congress was mourning the decline of both the conciliatory style of politics that animated his career and the moderate Republican disposition that the tea party is determined to destroy."
Castle is not a moderate, but an extremist. He stood in opposition to the most fundamental values of our civilization: He voted against the right of parents to protect their children from moral and physical harm. He voted against protecting the right to life of innocents. He voted against marriage. And he even voted against preventing human cloning from taking place in our country.
Can anyone imagine John F. Kennedy advancing policies such as these in 1960? The liberal Democrats of just 50 years ago would never have imagined, let alone embraced as a kindred spirit, the type of politician we are supposed to accept as a "moderate" Republican today.
All the republicans who voted along with Castle need to be thrown out into the moat along with their blood stained democrat cohorts in murder.
Does the definition of ‘human cloning’ set forth in the statute include natural conception and development of identical twins?
Well at least you are accurately named.
Mike Castle is a radical liberal Democrat who is inside the Republican Party. He is not alone. Politicians like Castle are vital to the agenda of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party leadership.
Collins, Snowe, Voinevitch and a few others have been helping the Democrats destroy this country for a long time. Include John McCain and Lindsey Graham in that group.
Until these people are flushed out of the Republican Party, America has only one way it can go. Down!!
Are you suggesting that creating a test tube baby for the purpose of harvesting should be an acceptable practice?
only in the delusional mind of a troll.
His frame of reference renders everything he says inane.
Actually you are wrong about McCain, unlike Collins, Snowe and Voinovich he votes mostly with the Republicans. So if you think he’s a democrat, then he must be a DINO. And having friends on the other side, does not make one a RINO. Voting with them does.
I don’t know how many republicans in the House voted with Castle and the rats. The senate votes are easier to check, then the House votes. I do know that my rep; who is a conservative, always votes with her fellow Republicans. That is why I will vote on November for her 2nd reelection. Normally I believe in voting for a candidate only twice. Once to get them elected and the second time to reelect them one more time. I hope she will run for the Senate in 2012
If you read the IBD editorials by E. J. Dionne threads that I post, perhaps you have noticed that I always describe im in the author lie as left-wing lunatic
You may be right. I really don’t understand what you are saying. Dino? RINO? McCain can’t be described as a Democrat in name only because he has never changed Parties.
I want to quote something for you. “During the 10 years The Republic examined, McCain crossed over to vote with Democrats 19 times in 82 close votes. He did so just once in the four years he was running for president: 1999, 2000, 2007 and 2008. All 12 of the close votes he missed happened in those years, too.
That addresses McCain’s voting record. He was also a leader of the notorious “Gang of Fourteen” Republicans who compromised away the opportunity to filibuster Democratic nominees to the Supreme Court, which the Democrats had been doing very effectively to deny Republican nominees.
I will be interested in your response.
...and you are exceedingly accurate in that description!
I only read EJ when I either think things are going along too well and I need to ratchet myself down a couple notches or I just need some anger generated energy. Works every time.
As I understand it, an identical twin has genes from both parents, whilst a clone only has genes from one. I am not aware of any instance in colloquial, clinical or legal usage where a pregnant woman carrying identical twins is described as "cloning" or as "shipping" or "receiving" a clone.
Thus I find your comment perplexing. Am I missing something? Without further explanation, it appears to be a non-sequitur.
Can you clarify?
Thanks.
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