Posted on 08/03/2005 10:43:51 AM PDT by pblax8
Long-time Catholic League member Tom Dennelly wrote to Senator Edward Kennedy in 1971 expressing his views on abortion (this was a year-and-a-half before Roe v. Wade). In a letter dated August 3, 1971, Senator Kennedy replied; excerpts appear below. To read the full text, click here:
“While the deep concern of a woman bearing an unwanted child merits consideration and sympathy, it is my personal feeling that the legalization of abortion on demand is not in accordance with the value which our civilization places on human life. Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized—the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grow old.
“On the question of the individual’s freedom of choice there are easily available birth control methods and information which women may employ to prevent or postpone pregnancy. But once life has begun, no matter at what stage of growth, it is my belief that termination should not be decided merely by desire.
“When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family, and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception.”
Catholic League president William Donohue opined as follows:
“The same Ted Kennedy who once championed the rights of the unborn now champions the right of a doctor to jam a scissor into the skull of an infant who is 80-percent born. Sadly for him, history will look back at this era and recognize that he didn’t care enough about human beings to take responsibility for children from the very moment of conception.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicleauge.org ...
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Every thing I ever needed to know about Ted Kennedy I learned from Mary Jo.......'s autopsy.
Teddy boy lied! I'm shocked, truly shocked (hands trembling, reaching for the Chivas Regal).
He was all for retroactive abortion by drowning back then
Classic.
Sadly, this is no surprise. Ted Kennedy is a despicable human being. He slivers away from trouble like the snake he is, and will not hesitate to engage in the most outrageous demagoguery to destroy the reputation of another.
Remember what old Joe Kennedy said:
"I bought and paid for that Senate seat and as long as there is a Kennedy alive, it will be a Kennedy in it"
Doesn't matter what FatBoy says or when, people of Mass. need to find some matter and get him out....Old Joe is Dead and so is Ted.....
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Ping for later.
Like most libs, he does not have the GUTS to say what he truly believes. He will say anything to anyone at anytime just for political advantage. The cowards way out.
Of course, the only thing libs truly believe in is class warfare, keeping their power at all costs, and shoving whatever their beliefs are this week down our throats via the courts.
When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family, and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception.
When history looks back to this era, it'll witness a host of sellouts for political gain, among them Kennedy's, Jesse Jackson's, and Bill Clinton's. All three wrote eloquent defenses for the lives of the unborn before they made their Faustian transaction.
Later Kennedy was quoted:
"I am for abortion rights. Why, if abortion was legal when I was young, I wouldn't have had to kill Mary Jo Kopechne, er I mean . . "
Ted Kennedy is a physical and moral wreck.
Are the folks in taxachusetts demented that they keep electing a Kennedy? I could see 40-50 years ago that there might have been an Irish-American ethnic pride thing going on-----but that's definitely a thing of the past. My father was primarily Irish Catholic and never voted for a Kennedy. The fact was and is that the whole gang of them were sleezy (although charismatic)---and I'm really not bringing up Old Joe's rum running. (Prohibition was stupid and I would have probably run a speakeasy if I were alive then)
Hick - up ,,,,, hick - up ,,,,, puke .
Sorry , I was having a Ted Kennedy moment .
Well if they weren't would they keep putting old teddy boy in office? There has to be someone that could run against him, or at least I would think there would be....I think his son Patrick Kennedy is running for congressman or something I heard....
If the poor thing was conscious and able to turn in the car, get in the back seat and brace herself into the air pocket, why couldn't she have rolled down a window.
Ted Kennedy should still be charged with negligent manslaughter. At the least.
Mary Jo did not have an autopsy, which was in violation of about a half dozen commonwealth laws. Teddy did not want to know how long she lived.
Probably scared witless and panicked.
I should have said "or lack thereof" which is exactly what I meant.
Moby Ted
It is easy to get disoriented if you are trapped in a car underwater, especially if you have been drinking enough to leave a party with Ted. If you are in an air pocket you are not going to want to turn around and swim down away from the pocket.
Patrick is already a congressman in Rhode Island.
So does that mean that he will move to Mass when Fat Boy gets ready to retire and take the seat his grand pappy bought and paid for?
When he dies, Ted Kennedy is going straight to Hell, for eternity.
This was all said of course well before Fat Ted had a complete, alcoholic induced, melt down of brain cells, and fell completely on the communist/leftist/liberal sword of life. Today, this means absolute nothing to him. Nothing. He is about as Catholic as I am (I am Southern Baptist by the way).
Beluga Whale beached in Mass.
I can only hope for the blessed event.
You're calling Teddy the Swimmer a 'peculiararity"?
Sorry, that doesn't cut it by a LONG shot.
See tag line.
As a pro-"choice"r, he is considerably less Catholic than you. (Take it from a Catholic.)
New Ted Kennedy Assault Story on fatboy.cc
I grew up in Vermont and remember an incident that occurred in Stowe when JFK was President. I think it was the winter of 1962. The Kennedy Klan was on a ski holiday and a news photographer was taking pictures of them on the slopes. Teddy grabbed the man's camera, held it by the strap and proceeded to beat the bejesus out of the photographer. The photographer required serious medical attention and, as I recall, was subsequently arrested by Stowe Police on some bogus charge. Teddy was never charged with assault or anything else. The story ran in the Burlington Free Press for several days and included a picture of the photographer after Fatboy got done doing a number on his face with the camera.
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