http://web.archive.org/web/20070203013040/http://www.catholicleague.org/05press_releases/quarter+3/KennedyLetter2.PDF
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pdf at the link is worth viewing
So, at least at one point he did know better? Or was this just a bone thrown to a constituent before Roe came along and gave him cover?
Al Gore was once pro-life, too. But in the modern Democratic Party, that’s just not tenable.
Pro-life views do not mesh with the current urgent push for “health insurance reform”. Newborn babies are not productive citizens. They need constant care. They don’t pay taxes (yet). They don’t vote (yet). They hobble their parents from doing other things. They might turn out to be conservatives. They might be offended at being born with $9 trillion in debt load. Best to just snuff them out with taxpayer monies.
“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.”
that’s what democrats used to stand for.
It is hard to imagine any other reason for the change!
Kennedy was willing to see to it that innocent babies died in order to retain political power.
What a pathetic loser.