The Evolution of Senator Kerry on Abortion: 1972-2004

Various | 10-14-04 (compiled) | John Kerry

[FreedomProtector]

"But I can't take what is an article of faith for me and legislate it for someone who doesn't share that article of faith, whether they be agnostic, atheist, Jew, Protestant, whatever. I can't do that."

A stop sign imposes an article of faith on others that one shouldn't harm another person or another persons property. Mr. Kerry, perhaps we should not legislate stop signs when you drive through an intersection because they impose the article of faith that we should not harm an innocent person, or an innocent persons property.

[WOSG]

You may be interested in this link:

http://www.cathfam.org/polrec/KerryVote.html

Detailed votes on abortion... very pro-abortion.



Rated 100 by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record.
Kerry scores 100 by NARAL on pro-choice voting record

http://www.issues2000.org/Social/John_Kerry_Abortion.htm

[MHGinTN]

What Ol' John Feckless Kerry has said and continues to say is designed to hedge his vote potentials ... and the truth be damned if it gets in his way to votes (he really doesn't care when a 'person' is present following conception, the court appointed right to kill the alive unborn is not to be infringed for liberals who vote Democrat). So, Almighty Lord, stay out of Mister Kerry's way while he's doing Satan's work here on Earth lest You be Judged partisan and 'unfair' to liberal demonspawn.

[cgk]

"I cannot, however, support this bill [S. 46, Unborn Children's Civil Rights Act of 1985] because it is based on the premise that the fetus is a living human being. This is a religious, not scientific belief, and as such, I cannot support any legislation which imposes any one religious view on all people."

That says it all right there. He espouses to be a Catholic - a religious man, but he then says he "disagrees" with his own religion's teachings and truths. It was quite telling during the town hall debate when the woman asked him about funding abortions with tax payer dollars and he responded with a theological discussion. She didn't mention God or religion. He can't argue the science of it either, so he chooses to attack the religious "right."

[Deo volente]

Kerry: "I was an altar boy."



So was Stalin.

[NYer]

Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics

THE FIVE NON-NEGOTIABLE ISSUES
These five current issues concern actions that are intrinsically evil and must never be promoted by the law. Intrinsically evil actions are those which fundamentally conflict with the moral law and can never be deliberately performed under any circumstances. It is a serious sin to deliberately endorse or promote any of these actions, and no candidate who really wants to advance the common good will support any action contrary to the non-negotiable principles involved in these issues.

1. Abortion

The Church teaches that, regarding a law permitting abortions, it is "never licit to obey it, or to take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or to vote for it" (EV 73). Abortion is the intentional and direct killing of an innocent human being, and therefore it is a form of homicide.

The unborn child is always an innocent party, and no law may permit the taking of his life. Even when a child is conceived through rape or incest, the fault is not the child's, who should not suffer death for others' sins.

2. Euthanasia

Often disguised by the name "mercy killing," euthanasia also is a form of homicide. No person has a right to take his own life, and no one has the right to take the life of any innocent person.

In euthanasia, the ill or elderly are killed, by action or omission, out of a misplaced sense of compassion, but true compassion cannot include intentionally doing something intrinsically evil to another person (cf. EV 73).

3. Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Human embryos are human beings. "Respect for the dignity of the human being excludes all experimental manipulation or exploitation of the human embryo" (CRF 4b).

Recent scientific advances show that often medical treatments that researchers hope to develop from experimentation on embryonic stem cells can be developed by using adult stem cells instead. Adult stem cells can be obtained without doing harm to the adults from whom they come. Thus there is no valid medical argument in favor of using embryonic stem cells. And even if there were benefits to be had from such experiments, they would not justify destroying innocent embryonic humans.

4. Human Cloning

"Attempts . . . for obtaining a human being without any connection with sexuality through 'twin fission,' cloning, or parthenogenesis are to be considered contrary to the moral law, since they are in opposition to the dignity both of human procreation and of the conjugal union" (RHL I:6).

Human cloning also involves abortion because the "rejected" or "unsuccessful" embryonic clones are destroyed, yet each clone is a human being.

5. Homosexual "Marriage"

True marriage is the union of one man and one woman. Legal recognition of any other union as "marriage" undermines true marriage, and legal recognition of homosexual unions actually does homosexual persons a disfavor by encouraging them to persist in what is an objectively immoral arrangement.

"When legislation in favor of the recognition of homosexual unions is proposed for the first time in a legislative assembly, the Catholic lawmaker has a moral duty to express his opposition clearly and publicly and to vote against it. To vote in favor of a law so harmful to the common good is gravely immoral" (UHP 10).