"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it..."
Posted on 08/03/2004 7:11:04 PM PDT by miltonim
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is further distancing himself from comments he made last month that human life begins at conception.
In an interview with the Associated Press on Friday, Kerry reiterated his support for the so-called right to abortion, but seemingly changed his position on the beginning of life.
Asked whether he thought abortion constituted the taking of human life, Kerry said that an unborn child is a "form of life.''
"The Bible itself - I mean, everything talks about different layers of development," Kerry said. "That's what Roe v Wade does. It talks about viability. It's the law of the land.''
Kerry's comments drew guffaws from pro-life advocates.
"John Kerry's statement that a fetus is potential life is scientific nonsense," Nikolas Nikas, an attorney with Americans United for Life, told LifeNews.com. "A fetus is a human being at the fetal stage of life. It is not potential life, but human life with potential. Check any medical textbook."
Nikas also took issue with Kerry's view of the Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion.
"[H]is view that, since abortion on demand is mandated by the Supreme Court, it cannot be challenged flies in the face of American history," Nikas explained. "The Supreme Court once held that slaves were property. Should we accept that African Americans are property because the Court once held that?"
In his Friday interview, Kerry, once again, said he could not put his Catholic views on abortion into policy.
"I don't believe personally that it's the government's job to step in and take my article of faith and transfer it to somebody who doesn't share that article of faith,'' said Kerry.
While campaigning in a heavily Catholic part of Iowa in early July, Kerry told the Dubuque Telegraph Herald, "I oppose abortion, personally. I don't like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception."
Kerry also backed away from those comments in an interview with ABC news anchor Peter Jennings late last month.
Kerry said he thought the "fertilization process" is when a human being "is first formed and created." However, Kerry added, "[w]ithin weeks, you look and see the development of it, but that's not a person yet, and it's certainly not what somebody, in my judgment, ought to have the government of the United States intervening in."
The contradictory statements, designed to keep his pro-abortion supporters and mollify voters who back him on other issues but have qualms with his abortion position, reveal Kerry's nature as a flip-flopper, pro-life advocates say.
"Senator Kerry now claims that he believes that 'a human being is first formed and created' at fertilization, but for 20 years he has consistently voted against any legal protection for those human beings," says Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee.
"When it comes to abortion, John Kerry's views are on the wrong side of science, the wrong side of history, and the wrong side of morality," Nikas concluded.
That is something up with which we should not put.
I looked this up a few months ago and found out that it's not true. It's a holdover from Latin grammar.
Certainly, but even when you're wrong you have clear positions that you hold true. :-}
Kerry is an empty shell, in many regards the same as Bill Clinton and in some regards worse.
"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it..."
"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it. It's life, Jim, but not as we know it."
I'm surprised that I have seen no Bush ads yet on Spanish language TV emphazing Kerry's bizarre abortion stance. My girlfried is from Venezuela and not really into politics. However, one day she said that she thinks she would support Kerry if she could vote. I merely pointed out that Kerry SUPPORTS abortion. She immediately changed her mind about Kerry. This info about Kerry needs to placed on Spanish language TV. Latins are stongly anti-abortion.
YOWZA! I swear I didn't see your post when I posted EXACTLY the same thing. One correction. I think it was Bones, not Spock, who said, "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it."
Oops! Maybe it was Spock who said that.
Star Trekkin' across the universe
On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk
Star Trekkin' across the universe
Boldly going forward 'cuz we can't find "reverse."
"When it comes to abortion, John Kerry's views are on the wrong side of science, the wrong side of history, and the wrong side of morality," Nikas concluded.Pro-life bump.
Ping
Kerry's political stances exist in a perpetual 'layer of development', changing from day to day and hour to hour.
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