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Hatch earns respect of his foe on abortion (Michelman Lauds Hatch)
Deseret Morning News ^
| Tuesday, January 13, 2004
| Lee Davidson
Posted on 01/15/2004 6:43:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Kate Michelman Praises Senator Hatch as "Most Respected" Opponent
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 15, 2004
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In one of her final interviews as the president of the national pro-abortion lobbying organization NARAL, Kate Michelman this week named pro-life Senator Orrin Hatch as one of her opponents that she respects the most.
After a speech at the National Press Club, Michelman didn't hesitate when naming Hatch in response to a reporter's question.
"Senator Hatch is a thorn in my little side when it comes to judicial nominations," Michelman explained. But "he and I have had long years of conversation and respect each other's positions. . . .
She went on to describe all pro-life advocates.
"I don't want to characterize all of those who oppose a woman's right to choose as despicable people. They aren't. They're wrong absolutely wrong."
Michelman added, "As I always tell Sen. Hatch, I don't know why, but I always have this hope that someday a light bulb is going to go off in his little soul."
A spokesman for Hatch returned the praise.
According to the Deseret News, Margarita Tapia, a Hatch spokesman, said, "Sen. Hatch respects everyone who sincerely believes in their position even if he disagrees with them. He does have a lot of respect for Kate Michelman. She is one who has been courteous and kind even when she disagrees with him."
Though Hatch is a longtime pro-life leader in Congress on abortion issues, part of the reason for Michelman's remarks could be his support for embryonic stem cell research.
Hatch has upset the pro-life community by co-sponsoring a "clone and kill" bill that would allow researchers to clone human embryos only to kill them shortly thereafter in order to obtain their stem cells. The Hatch bill, co-sponsored by pro-abortion California senator Diane Feinstein, faces strong opposition from pro-life organizations.
Michelman, one of the most recognizable pro-abortion leaders, will be stepping down as president of NARAL next spring after heading the national abortion advocacy group for 18 years.
She is staying on through the spring in order to lead a national pro-abortion march next April.
Michelman plans to leave the organization in order to care for her ill husband. She also says she wants to spend more time focusing on defeating President George. W. Bush in the 2004 elections.
Pro-life groups often remember a Michelman gaffe in a February 1994 interview with a reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer, when she said, "We think abortion is a bad thing."
When later asked about the quote in a Congressional hearing, Michelman denied having said it. However, the interview was tape-recorded and the reporter stood by her story.
To: nickcarraway
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
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01/15/2004 6:45:06 PM PST
by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: nickcarraway
She said the Utahn, who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, "is a thorn in my little side when it comes to judicial nominations." Hell can't be hot enough.
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posted on
01/15/2004 6:49:22 PM PST
by
nickcarraway
(www.terrisfight.org)
To: nickcarraway
Abort on is murder, Mrs. Michelman. Senator Hatch is a Christian. You wouldn't want him to condone murder, would you?
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01/15/2004 6:50:19 PM PST
by
Texagirl4W
(You should not confuse your career with your life.)
To: nickcarraway
But if the court reversed itself and declared (correctly) that abortion wasn't a constitutional right, then it wouldn't BE a constitutional right anymore, and the litmus test would be judges that were against abortion.
These people just don't get the concept that the founding fathers invisioned.
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01/15/2004 6:50:59 PM PST
by
LaraCroft
(If the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, do the stupid get stupider?)
To: nickcarraway
Michelman announced she will soon take emeritus status at NARAL (formerly called the National Abortion Rights Action League) Gee, what an honor.
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01/15/2004 6:55:56 PM PST
by
Reagan is King
(The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.)
To: LaraCroft
Dred Scott anyone?
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01/15/2004 6:56:41 PM PST
by
nickcarraway
(www.terrisfight.org)
To: nickcarraway
I can respect people who disagree with my opinions.
But never an iota of respect for anyone who tries to defend child sacrifice.
To: nickcarraway
I wonder if Michaelman would support Orrin Hatch if he were nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court?
To: nickcarraway
Michelman added, "As I always tell Sen. Hatch, I don't know why, but I always have this hope that someday a light bulb is going to go off in his little soul." And I would hope the same happens to Kate Michelman.
To: nickcarraway
Hatch is usually conservative, but he has given in at key, strategic moments on the abortion front. Most egregiously, he was the man chiefly responsible for shooting down the Right-to-Life bill in the early days after Roe v. Wade was promulgated. It failed by a single vote, and Hatch was the man responsible--with the aid of Cardinal Bernardin and the National Bishops Conference bureaucracy which he controlled, who persuaded many of the Catholic bishops at the time that they should hold out for a right-to-life amendment and therefore should oppose the right-to-life bill. That lost pro-lifers momentum at a critical moment, and it took 20 years or more to start getting it back.
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01/15/2004 7:18:17 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: nickcarraway
>Michelman added, "As I always tell Sen. Hatch, I don't know why, but I always have this hope that someday a light bulb is going to go off in his little soul."
Hatch suffers from Battered Republican Syndrome. The best thing Michelman can say is belittle the Senator and say she, as a nobody, hopes that a "light bulb" goes off in his "little soul". As if right now his soul is lacking and he needs to "see the light". Wow- what a compliment! And Hatch's response through his spokesperson is expected. Effectively, "Kate is so nice because she has been kind even when we disagree.". Wow, she should get a Nobel Peace Prize. There's a simple way to do this. Every Democrat who demonizes Republicans for merely disagreeing with them should be marginalized and excluded from public discourse. Once we make inroads into the media, this will be more easily accomplished.
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01/15/2004 7:21:52 PM PST
by
jagrmeister
(I'm not a conservative. I don't seek to conserve, I seek to reform.)
To: Cicero
Hatch is and always has been anti-abortion. He will never change. If you think otherwise, you are wrong on this one.
Now, when it comes to granting illegals some kind of amnesty, he is a real dork and I have let him know (to no avail). The state's senators have a thing about never answering constituent letters. It's frustrating. The best way to get their attention is to visit their local offices and rant to the staff for a while.
To: Zack Nguyen
Some day it will be a little stronger than a light bulb that goes off for her.
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To: nickcarraway
**She said the Utahn, who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, "is a thorn in my little side when it comes to judicial nominations." **
Is the real truth coming out? Oh! MY!
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01/15/2004 7:53:56 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Clintonfatigued
I wonder if Michaelman would support Orrin Hatch if he were nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court? LOL. Michelman would unleash the hounds of hell itself. If Hatch ever stole candy from the Safeway when he was 6, it would be in the New York Times.
To: nickcarraway
Michelman said the election will likely determine for years "under what circumstances do we bring children into the world, and who makes the choice. Should children be brought in by choice, or under the heavy hand of government compulsion." ... It's simple really, Michelman and the dnc leadership believe these ARE children being aborted, they just believe it is a woman's right to kill these innocent children while in the womb.
Notice how the ghoul calls the victims 'children'? Notice how she defends the indefensible, 'infanticide as a woman's right' AFTER she has willingly engaged in the behavior that begets pregnancy? Obviously, it isn't about the female children, slaughter them indescriminately on the altar of choice; it's about empowering already alive lusters for power via the legalization of god-like right to murder without legal consequence. And women like Michelman don't give a damn about the 'women too weak to stride through the slaughter with unfettered consciences or resist psychological harm.'
In a by-gone era, people like Michelman and her hench-ghouls would be pariahs for their serial killing defense. Today, because the American sovereigns are dumbed-down and preoccupied with bread and circuses, these demonic servants of child sacrifice are given heroic status ... dripping in the blood of the innocent, but heroes to the dnc and the hedonistic, self aggrandizers who seek to avoid consequences.
Oddly enough, Hatch and Michelman are in agreement on one or two major life issues. Hatch believes an embryo or fetus isn't a human being unless in a woman's body, so he is pushing for legalization of clone and kill research ... Michelman believes Hatch is a great spokesperson for that level of dehumanization, she can handle the other levels of same.
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01/15/2004 8:11:03 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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