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.
The DemocRats would just looove that to happen.
Maybe they can call the party "Libertarians II".
Uhhh... "-Tom."
We've been trying for thirty years to reverse Roe v. Wade. If there were a magic wand to wave, somebody would have waved it by now.
Obviously, you have that magic wand. If you truly believe that partial birth abortion is the taking of innocent life, then why have you waited so long to wave it?
EXAMPLE: the individual kneeling on the sidewalk outside of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic who is sued in civil court for violating the FACE Act previously (because her kneeling is "physically blocking" access to the clinic -- and yes, judges have ruled for the pro-aborts when people have been praying on the sidewalk) may have discharged her lawsuit debts because her actions weren’t both willful and malicious. But under the Schumer language she would not be able to discharge debts from her Planned Parenthood lawsuit. This is a HUGE incentive for NARAL, PP, et al to sue EVERY protestor, and demanding the protestor pay NARAL's legal fees (as well as paying her own attorney)-- basically silencing the pro-life protests.
You might think pro-lifers don't have the right to pray outside abortion clinics, and that's fine. But this language would in fact affect these protests, not just violent protestors or those laying in front of clinic doors. A really good legal analysis by Harvard Law Professor Mary Ann Glendon is here: Legal Analysis
Unfortunately even when the PBA bill is passed it won't stop the "procedure" from happening at all. All a doctor has to do is say the health of the mother is at risk, and they can legally continue this slaughter of innocent lives. Bush knows this, and knows that this bill won't save one live, but I can't understand why he is waiting since over 75% of Americans are for this ban.
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's (R-Miss.) promise to pass a partial birth abortion ban is being praised by conservatives. During an interview with American Family Radio Wednesday, Lott said, "I will call it up, we will pass it, and the president will sign it. I'm making that commitment - you can write it down."
LOL! The pro-life forces are the mainstream GOP! Without them, Democrats would win every election.
But I hope I am wrong, and if so will gladly eat a main course of crow and humble pie for desert.
Then, they passed a version without the provision, but it cannot pass the Senate.
EVERY vote belongs to the GOP. Then the GOP can crap on them. And then the GOP can dare them to leave, but then rail on them for not voting...
The GOP has a habit of expecting loyalty but not returning it.
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