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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."
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PHILIP Nitschke is considering moving to the US to continue his campaign for voluntary euthanasia after a hostile reception from British immigration authorities on the weekend.
The Australian campaigner known as "Doctor Death" said last night that until he was detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours on Saturday he had been considering moving to Britain to escape Australia's increasingly tight restrictions on the dissemination of information on how to kill yourself.
"That looks unlikely now, because after that reception I guess the British will be less likely to let me stay," Dr Nitschke told The Australian.
"I'm not sure, but we might be forced to move to the US, which still has freedom of speech and increasingly looks like a less hostile environment."
Dr Nitschke was last night due to launch in London a testing kit to allow people considering suicide to check that any barbiturates they had bought were capable of killing them, before holding four seminars on assisted suicide.
"The problem is it was pretty clear the immigration people were waiting for us, and they were well prepared with a big file on our activities," he said. . .
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Farrah Fawcett is in her final days at home. At least she has an IV for nutrition but she’s bedridden and frail.