WASHINGTON — Complaining that the media's pro-abortion bias is “nuts,” former US president Bill Clinton compared the abortion issue to global warming.
“If you're a Democrat and you have sort of normal impulses, you're a sell-out, like when Hillary said abortion is a tragedy for virtually everybody who undergoes it, we ought to do all we can to reduce abortion,” Clinton claimed, according to an Associated Press report.
“All of a sudden,” Clinton continued, the media clamoured, “'Is she selling out? Is she abandoning her principles?' But if John McCain, who's pro-life, works with Hillary on global warming, he's a man of principle moving to the middle.”
“It's nuts,” he added.
Sen. Clinton, despite her husband's opposite contention, has consistently supported legalized abortion, speaking at gatherings of abortion-rights advocates and voting against a ban on partial-birth abortion. She also has advocated expanding embryonic stem cell research and has declared contraception “basic health care for women.”
At a January 2005 speech to New York State “family planning providers,” Clinton was widely reported as softening her stance on abortion, saying at one point that abortion is a “tragic choice for many.”
Clinton in fact began by repeating her firm commitment to keeping abortion legal: “I am so pleased to be here two days after the 32nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a landmark decision that struck a blow for freedom and equality for women,” she said. “Today Roe is in more jeopardy than ever, and I look forward to working with all of you as we fight to defend it in the coming years.”
Until the latest election, Democratic rhetoric on abortion was guided by the extreme end of militant feminism while ignoring polls showing most Americans favored at least some restrictions on abortion. With the resounding defeat of their abortion and gay 'marriage' platform, the Democrats have realized that they need to tone down their abortion militancy.
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Polluted Unborn Babies Evoke Pro-Life Talk From Abortion Supporting Congresswoman
NEW YORK — At most times, according to the international news service Reuters and a Democrat Congresswoman, they are “products of conception” or “fetal tissue” that can be disposed of at a whim. But when an environmental issue is involved, they are transformed into “unborn babies,” and “babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.”
Reuters is a steadfast promoter of abortion and is particularly adept at following the abortion lobby's tactics of linguistic manipulation. But last week's story of a report showing environmental toxins in umbilical cord blood starts with the news that “unborn babies are soaking in a stew of chemicals.”
The report by the Environmental Working Group shows as many as 287 chemical pollutants were found in ten samples of umbilical cord blood, including mercury, fire retardants, pesticides.
Rep. Louise Slaughter, a Democrat with a nearly perfect record of abortion support in Congress, shared her shock and outrage that “These 10 newborn babies … were born polluted.”
“If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb,” Slaughter said.
Slaughter might be called to task for her logic however, since she has voted no on making it a crime to harm an unborn child during another crime, on banning partial-birth abortion, on banning cloning, on banning federal funding for overseas abortion and sterilization programs, and on barring transporting minors to get an abortion.
This record of steadfast determination to enact laws ensuring that as many unborn US citizens as possible will be killed, in many cases by injection of deadly chemicals into the womb, might have been expected to put a damper on her speech in New York.
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(This update courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com.)
