Posted on 11/15/2002 1:38:38 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Republican leaders are jabbing a thumb in the eyes of pro-lifers whose votes were largely responsible for the GOP victory in the November 5, elections, an angry Ken Connor charges.
Connor, president of the Family Research Council, ripped into the Republican congressional leadership for not standing firmly against the bankruptcy bill which contains Sen. Chuck Schumer's hostile pro-abortion amendment.
"The GOP is saying to pro-lifers, 'Thanks for your votes, now get lost!'" Connor said.
"Instead of rewarding pro-life Americans for giving their votes overwhelmingly to Republican candidates in last week's election, the GOP leadership is jabbing a thumb in their eye barely a week after the election at the behest of the well-heeled business wing of the party.
"Pro-lifers are asking themselves why they bothered when the GOP appears intent on sticking them with a gratuitous anti-life law that would expose peaceful anti-abortion protestors to financial ruin," Connor continued.
"Meanwhile, as GOP leaders ram through the Schumer amendment, pro-lifers are being told there is not enough time in the lame duck session to get a Senate vote on the bill banning partial-birth abortion the House passed last July.
According to Connor, The Schumer amendment "effectively says, 'If you are a pro-life protester and you wind up with a money judgment against you for engaging in what we regard as constitutionally protected speech and activity, you are not going to be able to discharge that debt in bankruptcy,'
"The effect of that is to create a disfavored class for purposes of punishing politically incorrect speech, because the only group that is being singled out for this kind of treatment is pro-life protestors.
"It's imperative that the GOP leadership put the same muscle behind the partial-birth abortion ban as they appear to be giving to the bankruptcy bill."
Once again, the GOP leadership is proving that they simply don't know who their real friends are.
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I trust that you didn't actually means this. There is no moral equivalence of any sort between an abortionist or his supporters and any pro-lifer. Abortionists and terrorist are morally equivalent. For me, a rabid pro-lifer, your compromise would be a dream come true. To put things in persepective, the odious provision in this bankrupcy law would treat even peaceful protestors differently than any other class of people. And somehow we pro-lifers are to blame for objecting.
Overreaching on abortion is a certain recipe for putting the Dems back in power. It's better to concentrate on economic issues, which would garner support from big numbers of moderate Dems.
Excuse me, but how are the pro lifers overreaching? Also remember, it is the rabidly pro-life Republicans that are also the ones who happen to be the most conservative when it comes to fiscal issues. The RINOs who vote pro abortion also seem to be the first to join the RATs in voting for tax increases.
And you are a familiar with bankruptcy law, along with FACE? Given your obvious disdain for life, that would make you a lawyer for Planned Parenthood. Your screen name suits you.
It can't be a one-issue party, and there has to be a logical cohesion to the values it supports.
Example: pro-lifers support the rights of pre-birth infants to survive.
conservationists support the rights of trees, and snakes, and everything else alive to survive
close the border folks support the dignity of the nation's values, laws, and current population
blacks and other established (citizen) minorities want to protect what they have spent their whole lives striving for; how will they ever get ahead with the status quo? Plus, for blacks, many of them religious, life is sacred.
Now, watch all of the one-issue folks go crazy with this list, how they couldn't live with such a coalition. Well, we live with a coalition along these lines, or babies keep being slaughtered, but don't worry, those SUVs will have plenty of fuel.
Only as familiar as your average pawnshop owner.
Yes, I do blame him for not trying to get it passed in his first 100 days. However, I never once said he stopped it from being passed.
No, I blaming Bush for his inactions during his first 100 days.
You obviously have a reading comprehension problem.
No, but here's an analogy. Suppose there was a burning building with kids trapped inside burning to death. You could rush in right away and maybe save 2 or 3 before you succumbed to smoke and heat and burned to death. Or you could take a few minutes to prepare, put on a flameproof suit, and save much more.
Rushing right ahead to ban partial birth abortion wouldn't do any good if it inflamed the Democrats to such a degree that it was impossible to get conservative judges appointed. Then the Pro-death constitution-ignoring liberal activist judges would just declare that sucking the brains out of an unborn child'd perforated skull is a constitutionally protected right, and any legislation would be meaningless.
Okay, so you're in favor on unrestricted abortions. Would you see any problem with a woman walking into a hospital on the day she's scheduled to give birth, and asking for an abortion instead? It's her body right, and therefore 100% her choice?
Do you know how a partial birth abortion is performed? The live child is delivered, all but the head. The doctor takes a surgical instrument and jabs a hole in the skull, then inserts a suction device and vacuums the brains out. The dead child is then delivered.
Would you have a problem with this procedure being performed on the day a woman was scheduled to give birth? Isn't it the woman's choice? If you objected to this procedure happening on the due date, then would that make you an anti-choice statist?
And it would seem that is how the Republicans treat the abortion issue. They are supposed to do something about it but never really do.
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