Posted on 05/04/2009 1:06:31 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Fresh from switching from the Republican to the Democratic Party, pro-abortion Sen. Arlen Specter upset pro-life advocates again over the weekend. He blamed the death of pro-life former Congressman and vice-presidential candidate Jack Kemp on pro-life policies that he claimed are anti-science.
Kemp died over the weekend about a bout with cancer, with which he was only diagnosed in January. By the time it was caught, it had spread throughout his body.
Now, Specter has, as some pro-life advocates say, "shamefully" used the occasion of Kemp's death to justify his political switch.
"Well, I was sorry to disappoint many people. Frankly, I was disappointed that the Republican Party didn't want me as their candidate," he told the news program "Face the Nation."
"But as a matter of principle, I'm becoming much more comfortable with the Democrats' approach. And one of the items that I'm working on, Bob, is funding for medical research," Specter added. "If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine."
Specter, who has long been a thorn in the side of the pro-life movement for pushing for making taxpayers finance embryonic stem cell research that destroys human life, raised the ire of bioethics author and attorney Wesley J. Smith.
"One can certainly argue that the cancer research budget should be higher. One can also justify changing parties because one believes in increased spending," Smith said in response.
"But to say that but for GOP policies Jack Kemp "would be alive today," is shameful demagoguery of a self-obsessed politician willing to use the death of a former colleague to justify his own desperate political maneuvers," Smith commented.
Smith says he's not surprised by Specter's comments because they are similar to ones he and others made after former President Ronald Reagan died.
"The same kind of bovine manure was shoveled after Ronald Reagan died of Alzheimer's when some said that 'but for Bush's stem cell funding policies,' Reagan would have been cured," Smith recalled. "Some politicians just stink."
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What kind of cancer did Kemp have? Pancreatic?
Still waiting for Christopher Reeve to walk.
No?
Oh well.
gotta be an all time low...political death for this guy please
Specter is a maroon, with apologies to maroons.
Under Obama’s vision of health care, Kemp would have been euthanized when he was diagnosed as terminal and the IRS given advance notice to be ready to sieze his assets to pay the estate taxes.
He’s brazen.
Ha ha ha ha ha! Eloquent, but pointing out the error of his arguments might be more persuasive. The numbnuts doesn't even know that the promising research is happening in adult stem cells, and that God made it so we don't have to breed and murder humans to cure ourselves. In fact, those who do fertilize embryos for destruction have produced nothing but failure. Maybe they should get a clue? But no.
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Undisclosed, but cancer "in multiple places."
I'd have thought Specter would be transitioning to Democrat now, but it looks like he wasn't that far away from being a real pr*ck to begin with.
Why are they so hush hush about the kind of cancer do you think?
Arlen....Crack Kills! Just another idiot politician. Sheesh.
Actually, it appears that to be a real Democrat, you don’t get your street cred until you say one obscene thing daily for a year. Arlen’s just getting warmed up, I’d expect.
I agree with your sentiments.
Today, on a different Kemp thread, FReepers were tearing down the memory of the man.
Insanity lives on both sides of the street.
sphincter is now a physician...wow, talk about a talented one...
Most people think you are an as*, before your mouth makes EVERYONE know what they only suspect go home, sit on the porch, play with your grandchildren and enjoy the time you have left.
The family have probably got more important things on their minds now, than satisfying morbid curiosity.
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