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Kerry's abortion logic is flawed (From the College Front)
The Crimson White (U. Alabama) ^ | 8/25/04 | Marlin Caddell

Posted on 8/26/2004, 6:32:07 PM by NorCoGOP

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- If you love having the choice to suck your baby's brains out but don't want the hassle of feeling guilty for murdering a child, then John Kerry has the solution for you.

With the wonderful art of semantics, Kerry has now done the impossible. He has combined the pro-life and pro-murder positions in one package. What incredible intelligence Kerry must have to so easily rectify the bottomless chasm that separates these two positions.

On July 22, Kerry gave an interview with ABC news anchor Peter Jennings in which he provided the American people with the most beautiful, convoluted answer I have ever heard on the issue of abortion.

"My personal belief about what happens in the fertilization process is a human being is first formed and created, and that's when life begins ... Within 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."

Let me break that down just a little bit, because Kerry said human life begins at conception, but then he turns right around and says the government does not have a responsibility to protect that life. He said a human being is being formed but goes on in the interview to say the unborn child is not a person.

"It's not the form of life that takes personhood in the terms that we have judged it to be in the past. It's the beginning of life. Does life begin? Yes, it begins."

Again, Kerry said an unborn child is a life and a human being, but even with both of those qualifications, it doesn't meet the standard of personhood.

Does anyone else see the lunacy in calling an unborn child a human being but not calling it a person? This is a semantics war if I have ever seen one.

I am racking my brain to figure this out, but the only option I can see in the tangled web of contradiction is that Kerry believes an unborn child is not a person because the unborn child is not viable outside of the womb. However, viability should never be a factor in determining the importance of a human being, because doing so would force us to redefine rights for people that are already born.

Using the basis of viability to determine personhood rights, people who have experienced horrible accidents or injuries and are forced to be connected to life support machines would no longer have personhood. They are not viable without a machine just like an unborn child is not viable for months without a womb.

This political ploy by Kerry to move to the center was so blatant, even Jennings asked, "If I were really skeptical, Senator, I would say that when you use the phrase 'life begins at conception,' you're attempting to speak to those people for whom that is a slogan, making them totally opposed to abortion."

This attempt to play both sides of the field with abortion is just one more nail in the political coffin of John "flip flop" Kerry. It is just one flip flop in a long string of flip flops, and even I can't tell you where he stands on any issue. Actually, flip-flop is too nice a word for what Kerry has been doing from one issue to the next.

Don't immediately discount this with the response that President Bush lies, because everyone knows Kerry saw the same information Bush did about Iraq. That is a moot argument.

Even if you do not agree with the policies of President Bush (there are a few that I do not agree with), at least he stands for something tenaciously and is willing to take the heat for what he believes.

As for Kerry, if he would just come out and say that he is completely pro-choice, I would respect him more than with his tightrope walking. The American people can see right through this garbage.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; kerry; kerryabortion

1 posted on 8/26/2004, 6:32:07 PM by NorCoGOP
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To: NorCoGOP

"unborn child a human being but not calling it a person"

Maybe he was using the Bostonian reference: human bean.

Seriously, it is only this last year that I got up the nerve to look at pictures of what a partial birth abortion really is. Someone should shoot whoever came up with this idea, and end that gene pool. The whole cocept of doing this is barbarous. I can't even imagine a society calling itself civilized and permitting such a thing.


2 posted on 8/26/2004, 6:38:37 PM by combat_boots (Dug in and not budging an inch)
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To: combat_boots

Disclaimer: this is not to say that I am actually endorsing any act of violence toward the inventor of said procedure.


3 posted on 8/26/2004, 6:40:26 PM by combat_boots (Dug in and not budging an inch)
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To: NorCoGOP

Well done. Kerry is the doublespeak king.


4 posted on 8/26/2004, 6:41:25 PM by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: NorCoGOP
Does anyone else see the lunacy in calling an unborn child a human being but not calling it a person?

It makes excellent sense to an ambitious charlatan. Charlatans don't care about the subject of their falsehoods and contradictions. Charlatans, like John Kerry, need only make sense to the cause of their ambitions.

5 posted on 8/26/2004, 6:44:25 PM by elbucko (A Feral Republican)
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To: NorCoGOP

"Within 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."


If its not the life of a person that begins, whose life is it?


6 posted on 8/26/2004, 6:51:18 PM by jes
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To: Mr. Silverback

Ping


7 posted on 8/26/2004, 7:12:11 PM by EdReform (Support Free Republic - All donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your support!)
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To: combat_boots

Partial-Birth Abortion was INVENTED for the purpose of taking advantage of a new market for baby-bodyparts, a market DELIBERATELY CREATED by Bill Clinton, through an Executive Order that legalized trafficking in bodyparts of aborted babies.


8 posted on 8/26/2004, 7:31:32 PM by Arthur McGowan
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To: NorCoGOP

I'm sure the left doens't like it when I say that a human adult loses their "personhood" when they commit rape or murder and therefore loses their right to live.


9 posted on 8/26/2004, 7:31:45 PM by Awestruck (The artist formerly known as Goodie D)
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To: jes

Quite nice . . .


10 posted on 8/26/2004, 7:34:16 PM by Mach9
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To: Awestruck

Excellent--the bloody shirt IS a seamless garment.


11 posted on 8/26/2004, 7:35:28 PM by Mach9
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
"Kerry is the doublespeak king."

He is hoping to fool 10% of the swing vote to give him another percent or two in the popular vote. It could deliver one of the swing states and give him the election. It's also the reason he claims to be in favor of the war in Iraq.

But I've no doubt that the Republicans are going to hammer him between now and November over his insincerity and the voters will not fall for it.

12 posted on 8/26/2004, 8:38:52 PM by tom h
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