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Gingrich: Life Doesn't Begin at Conception Because That Would 'Open Up ... Very Difficult Questions'
CNS News ^ | 12/4/11 | By Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 12/04/2011 2:29:55 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks

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To: Clint N. Suhks

God says “at conception”. Any man or woman who says differently, isn’t worthy of the Christian vote.


21 posted on 12/04/2011 3:05:05 PM PST by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: Reagan Man

http://www.equalprotectionforposterity.com/index.html

The Equal Protection for Posterity Resolution

A Resolution affirming vital existing constitutional protections for the unalienable right to life of every innocent person, from the first moment of creation until natural death.

WHEREAS, The first stated principle of the United States, in its charter, the Declaration of Independence, is the assertion of the self-evident truth that all men are created equal, and that they are each endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, beginning with the right to life, and that the first purpose of all government is to defend that supreme right; and

WHEREAS, The first stated purposes of We the People of the United States in our Constitution are “to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”; and

WHEREAS, The United States Constitution, in the Fourteenth Amendment, imperatively requires that all persons within the jurisdictions of all the States be afforded the equal protection of the laws; and

WHEREAS, The United States Constitution, in the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments, explicitly forbids the taking of the life of any innocent person; and

WHEREAS, The practices of abortion and euthanasia violate every clause of the stated purposes of the United States Constitution, and its explicit provisions; and

WHEREAS, Modern science has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that the individual human person’s physical existence begins at the moment of biological inception or creation; and

WHEREAS, All executive, legislative and judicial Officers in America, at every level and in every branch, have sworn before God to support the United States Constitution as required by Article VI of that document, and have therefore, because the Constitution explicitly requires it, sworn to protect the life of every innocent person;

THEREFORE, WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES HEREBY RESOLVE that the God-given, unalienable right to life of every innocent person, from biological inception or creation to natural death, be protected everywhere within every state, territory and jurisdiction of the United States of America; that every officer of the judicial, legislative and executive departments, at every level and in every branch, is required to use all lawful means to protect every innocent life within their jurisdictions; and that we will henceforth deem failure to carry out this supreme sworn duty to be cause for removal from public office via impeachment or recall, or by statutory or electoral means, notwithstanding any law passed by any legislative body within the United States, or the decision of any court, or the decree of any executive officer, at any level of governance, to the contrary.


22 posted on 12/04/2011 3:05:41 PM PST by EternalVigilance (You might want to consider the distinct possibility that they are all wrong.)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

Looks like I’ll be sitting out this years’s Presidental race again. Pro-illegal and pandering republicans will not get my vote.


23 posted on 12/04/2011 3:06:23 PM PST by packrat35 (Heartless)
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To: Clint N. Suhks
There is politics and there is simple truth.

Noot cannot separate the two.

24 posted on 12/04/2011 3:08:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Holding our flawed politicians to higher standards than the enemyÂ’s politicians guarantees they win)
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To: Salvavida
And our national charter asserts as self-evident truth, or "as plain as the nose on your face" fact, that life begins at creation.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."

That is our national creed, upon which our form of government and our claim to liberty is premised.

Sometimes Gingrich even pays lip service to it. But he doesn't live up to it. Not even close.

25 posted on 12/04/2011 3:11:25 PM PST by EternalVigilance (You might want to consider the distinct possibility that they are all wrong.)
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To: sodpoodle
Newt is referring to IVF treatments, which I have no problem with what so ever.

My wife and I had a hard time having kids originally, we spent 10 years trying unsuccessfully. We finally went to an IVF doctor and had them combine my sperm and her some of her eggs together and then implant them, 2 of 4 took and we now have twins. I am very strongly pro-life and I don't see anything wrong with what we did, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I know that to some every masturbating is killing a potential child, but you have to recognize that you are in the vast minority of opinion.

Bachmann is just being her usual spiteful self.

26 posted on 12/04/2011 3:11:54 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Newt Gingrich 2012!)
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To: Clint N. Suhks
...because if you say life begins at conception "you're going to open up an extraordinary range of very difficult questions."

Yes, it does. The morally sound answers to those questions are hard. But it was made hard by people like Gingrich who want to go down the slippery slope just a bit to comfort themselves, which has already transformed society into a culture of easy solutions with murderous consequences. Gingrich is interviewing for a position where all of the decisions are hard, yet wants to run away from the issue.

Gingrich also said that his "friends" who take "ideological positions" that human life does begin at conception "don't then follow through on the logic of" that postion.

Yes, that is moral cowardice to not act as one believes, but Gingrich would have use believe that "believing" away moral problems in search of easy answers is better.

This is the most unpresidential thing he has said. Can I expect him to make any difficult choices as president? Is he just going to "believe" away the deficit?

27 posted on 12/04/2011 3:13:22 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Venturer

Newt’s view also leaves the door conveniently open for the use of embryonic stem cells.


28 posted on 12/04/2011 3:19:19 PM PST by Burkean (.)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

I hate to hear that Newt said this. It seems as though the Republicans are determined to pull defeat out of the jaws of victory and give Obozo 4 more years in the White House.


29 posted on 12/04/2011 3:20:38 PM PST by no dems (Why do you never see "Obama" bumper stickers on cars going to work in the morning?)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

I hate to hear that Newt said this. It seems as though the Republicans are determined to pull defeat out of the jaws of victory and give Obozo 4 more years in the White House.


30 posted on 12/04/2011 3:20:42 PM PST by no dems (Why do you never see "Obama" bumper stickers on cars going to work in the morning?)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

If life did not already exist within a frozen human, why would a doctor “implant” it?

Your comments do not make sense.


31 posted on 12/04/2011 3:29:56 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“Newt is referring to IVF treatments”

No, he is referring to stem cell research. He is trying to create a loophole so that life can be created for research purposes and then be discarded. Since there is no implantation involved he wants to say that he is not discarding human life, but according to Catholic doctrine, he is.


32 posted on 12/04/2011 3:33:45 PM PST by BarnacleCenturion (Heartless & Inhumane)
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To: Venturer
There damn sure will not be life without implantation.

Neither will there be without fertilization. Which, of course, comes before implantation.

33 posted on 12/04/2011 3:36:12 PM PST by upchuck (Rerun: Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

Newt is a bigger lair than Cain.


34 posted on 12/04/2011 3:37:08 PM PST by bmwcyle (I am ready to serve Jesus on Earth because the GOP failed again)
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To: Clint N. Suhks
Gingrich: Life Doesn't Begin at Conception Because That Would 'Open Up ... Very Difficult Questions'

What, it's above your pay grade, Newt?

35 posted on 12/04/2011 3:58:53 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: Clint N. Suhks
Gingrich: Life Doesn't Begin at Conception Because That Would 'Open Up ... Very Difficult Questions'

What, it's above your pay grade, Newt?

36 posted on 12/04/2011 3:59:04 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: Carolyn826
If people are really going to refuse to vote for a candidate (and in turn, let Obama win, who is far, far, far, far, far worse on the issue) who has voted pro-life 99% of the time simply because of this, then there is little hope for this nation.

While it's one thing to disagree with Newt on this, there isn't any legislation, proposed or otherwise, that this particular detail will make one iota of difference on in how he votes on that legislation.

37 posted on 12/04/2011 4:01:56 PM PST by RockinRight (If you're waiting to drink until you find pure water, you're going to die of dehydration.)
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To: Carolyn826
If people are really going to refuse to vote for a candidate (and in turn, let Obama win, who is far, far, far, far, far worse on the issue) who has voted pro-life 99% of the time simply because of this, then there is little hope for this nation.

While it's one thing to disagree with Newt on this, there isn't any legislation, proposed or otherwise, that this particular detail will make one iota of difference on in how he votes on that legislation.

38 posted on 12/04/2011 4:02:08 PM PST by RockinRight (If you're waiting to drink until you find pure water, you're going to die of dehydration.)
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To: Carolyn826
If people are really going to refuse to vote for a candidate (and in turn, let Obama win, who is far, far, far, far, far worse on the issue) who has voted pro-life 99% of the time simply because of this, then there is little hope for this nation.

While it's one thing to disagree with Newt on this, there isn't any legislation, proposed or otherwise, that this particular detail will make one iota of difference on in how he votes on that legislation.

39 posted on 12/04/2011 4:02:25 PM PST by RockinRight (If you're waiting to drink until you find pure water, you're going to die of dehydration.)
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To: Carolyn826
If people are really going to refuse to vote for a candidate (and in turn, let Obama win, who is far, far, far, far, far worse on the issue) who has voted pro-life 99% of the time simply because of this, then there is little hope for this nation.

While it's one thing to disagree with Newt on this, there isn't any legislation, proposed or otherwise, that this particular detail will make one iota of difference on in how he votes on that legislation.

40 posted on 12/04/2011 4:02:38 PM PST by RockinRight (If you're waiting to drink until you find pure water, you're going to die of dehydration.)
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