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Comment added by Unregistered on Mon 18 Oct 2004 - 21:50 h

Why is it that you democrats talk freely about Republicans being in bed with big business, but you NEVER bring up Planned Parenthood as big business. Why is that? We do not control the Senate and that is where the final votes take place. If you look at the laws that have tried to get passed through Senate on abortion and what happened to them and who voted against them - I would have to say that the Democrats are the ones that have no intentions of helping to pass any legislation that is pro life. Here is what I mean:+
These are the issues of the 108th Congress US Senate
1 - Harkin Amendment to endorse Roe v. Wade
2 - Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act: Boxer Motion
3 - Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act: Feinstein Substitute
4 - Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003: passage
5 - Abortion in military medical facilities
6 - Funding of overseas pro-abortion organizations ("Mexico City Policy")
7 - Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003
8 - Medicare Modernization Act: critical procedural vote
9 - Medicare Modernization Act: passage
10 - Feinstein Substitute Amendment (single-victim substitute)
11 - Unborn Victims of Violence Act: passage

Here is the scorecard: http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/scorecard/?chamber=S&session=108&x=6&y=16

To break it down 35 voted 100 percent pro life. They were all Republicans, except for Zell Miller,Ben Nelson & John Breaux.
14 voted between 80 percent to 99 percent and they too were all Republicans. Under 80 percent were 27, of those 18 were democrats. Lastly, there were 23 that voted 0 percent pro life. They were all Democrats, one of them being John Kerry.

Therebye - your odds of getting anything done that is pro life is with the Republicans. You owe it to them to give them a chance to make changes. How can you live with yourself if you don't? If nothing gets done - then we will need to pick a 100 percent CAtholic candidate that supports our views. What do you say?

With regards to the Justices - here is a quote from the Washington Times "Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Associate Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and John Paul Stevens are the most probable retirees. "
"Judicial philosophy explains nine-tenths of a justice's votes. Time and custom have come to accept three discrete brands as legitimate. The first searches for the original meaning of the Constitution. The second searches for a political compromise between contesting interpretations. The third searches for a construction that corresponds with contemporary standards of decency that flourish among intellectuals.
At present, Chief Justice Rehnquist and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas espouse the first brand, Associate Justices O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy the second, and Associate Justices Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Breyer the third. Constitutionally incoherent rulings that sow more doubts than they resolve have been the result, with Justices O'Connor and Kennedy characteristically casting the tipping votes."

Here is the whole article: http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20040913-101006-2227r.htm

This is from NARAL and the reason I am posting it is because they list ONLY 3 judges that they believe are Pro life, Kennedy, Thomas and Renquist. We need 3 votes!! Give the Republicans a chance to over turn this law. Elect those people that are 100 percent pro life if you can't vote Republican. I know that President Bush will make every effort to over turn Roe v Wade.

http://www.naral.org/facts/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID=5299

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