Abortion is the Choice of Satan, the father of lies and MURDERER from the beginning.
What is this nonsense about health plans covering contraceptive costs for women? What about men?????????
I doubt very much if Kerry will care whether he is denied communion. He doesn't seem like a very religious man, anyway. The man has no deep convictions of any kind, much like Clinton, the only thing that he believes in is himself.
This would never happen ... money talks.
His votes for abortion weren't really votes for abortion. They were votes for the "threat" of abortion.
Read with salt in hands PING!
"Kerry was raised a Catholic, served as an altar boy, and once considered becoming a priest."
(Barf Alert!)
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/ president/articles/2004/01/30/
rivals_assail_remarks_on_abortion_south?mode=PF
Rivals assail remarks on abortion, South
By Patrick Healy, Globe Staff, 1/30/2004
GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Senator John F. Kerry, facing the increased attention that comes with front-runner status, came under multiple attacks yesterday from rival Democrats over his recent remarks on abortion and winning Southern votes, while top Republicans assailed him as soft on national security.
Kerry struck back immediately with retorts that he and his advisers had crafted beforehand, a sign of his campaign's zeal for avoiding the political damage suffered by other Democrats who did not respond swiftly to attacks, including Howard Dean, who was weighed down by attacks from Kerry and other rivals when he was well ahead in early polls.
Advisers to one Democratic candidate circulated a newspaper article in Missouri -- which holds a key primary Tuesday that Kerry has targeted for victory -- that said Kerry personally opposed abortion "as an article of faith" because he is required to do so as a Catholic. Kerry added that a lawmaker should not "legislate his personal beliefs," according to a transcript of the interview with Missouri reporters, but that was not included in the published story.
Kerry was raised a Catholic, served as an altar boy, and once considered becoming a priest. Nevertheless, he said yesterday, "Whatever my personal beliefs are, they have no place here," and repeatedly stressed his view that the constitutional separation of church and state forbids lawmakers from regulating abortion based on their religious beliefs.
On a day when the seven Democratic candidates gathered here for a forum, rival John Edwards sought to sow doubt in Southern Democrats' minds about a key campaign theme of Kerry's -- that he is the most "electable" of the Democrats challenging President Bush. Edwards told reporters that the Massachusetts senator would be a "risk" as the party nominee because his mix of liberal and centrist views would not appeal to Southern voters.
"We've never elected a Democrat in the United States without winning at least five Southern states," Edwards said. "If Democrats across the country want to take a risk that for the first time in American history that's a possibility, then they can do that."
Voters in both Iowa and New Hampshire expressed similar concerns in the weeks before Kerry's recent victories in those states. He reassured them -- in comments that Edwards and others are now seizing upon -- by saying that he would compete in the South but didn't necessarily have to do well there during the general election. Instead, he said, he would seek to win all of the states that Al Gore carried in 2000, plus New Hampshire, Ohio, or West Virginia.
Yesterday, Kerry said his remark was not tantamount to writing off the South, but rather that it was "merely a comment on mathematical counting."
"It is not possible for me in my strategy to not campaign in the South and not win states in the South, and I intend to," Kerry said during a stop at Midlands Technical College in Columbia, S.C., where he picked up a key endorsement from the state's senior black congressman, James E. Clyburn.
"I've been to Alabama, to Tennessee, to Arkansas, to Florida, to Georgia, obviously to South Carolina," Kerry added. "I think it is time that we create a new coalition in America. In my race for the presidency, I intend to prove that we are indeed `one America,' " a phrase that Edwards has invoked for months.
Kerry also fended off a new line of attack from Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie, who said yesterday that the four-term senator had consistently opposed greater defense spending and laws that Gillespie said enhanced US national security.
While Kerry plans to use his Vietnam War service record and his foreign policy expertise as a bulwark to Republican attacks on his national security credentials, Gillespie drew a distinction between Kerry's experience as a soldier and his Senate record.
"John Kerry's record of service in our military is honorable. But his long record in the Senate is one of advocating policies that would weaken our national security," Gillespie said at the RNC's winter meeting in Washington yesterday.
Kerry said he welcomed a debate pitting his views on defense and security against Bush's, and called Gillespie's remarks "the greatest form of flattery."
"I have voted for the largest defense budgets in the history of our country. I have voted for almost all weapon systems that we have today with few exceptions. Unfortunately, these are people who've never met a system they didn't like. I have," Kerry said.
Before last night's forum with his rivals, Kerry earned bragging rights in South Carolina as he won support from Clyburn, who had previously endorsed Representative Richard A. Gephardt.
Kerry, who toured the technical college's manufacturing learning lab with Clyburn before announcing the endorsement, said that the two men had become friends during some of Kerry's visits to the state, where he has not campaigned since Sept. 12.
"I've had some good times with him, learned how to talk over the loud noise in a garage in a fish fry, and dance a bit late at night," Kerry said.
"I wouldn't call that dancing," Clyburn interjected.
"I thought for a white guy I showed some rhythm," Kerry replied. "I guess I'll have to take a few more lessons. I'm ready for it, folks, come on at it. Bring it on!"
Globe staff member Raja Mishra contributed to this report. Patrick Healy can be reached at
phealy@globe.com. © Copyright 2004 Globe Newspaper Company.