Why Does Kerry Hate Unborn Children?
By Tom Barrett (04/05/04)
Because John Kerry considers winning the presidency more important than doing his duty, he has missed almost every vote in the Senate this year. But he went out of his way to vote against the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, one of only a handful of votes he cast this year. This vote illustrates one more sharp contrast between The Liberal from Massachusetts and President Bush, who signed the bill in a moving ceremony last Tuesday.
There were many important news developments recently. Over 300,000 new jobs created (the highest rate of growth in four years), proving the Democrat attack dogs wrong once again. The gas price crisis (Bush’s solution: produce more oil; Kerry’s: raise the gas tax by 50 cents to discourage consumption). Kerry’s admission that he would raise taxes by $900 Billion in just his first 100 days in office. But it was not difficult for me to choose the most important news story to discuss in this column.
With Bush’s signature it became federal law that any person who causes death or injury to a child in the womb will be charged with a separate offense, in addition to any charges relating to the mother. President Bush said, "As of today, the law of our nation will acknowledge the plain fact that crimes of violence against a pregnant woman often have two victims."
The bill is also known as “Laci and Connor’s Law,” after a California woman and her unborn son who were murdered last year. Bush called Laci Peterson “…a beautiful young woman who was joyfully awaiting the arrival of a new son.” He said that her family “… also laid to rest that child, a boy named Conner, who was waiting to be born when his life, too, was taken…His little soul never saw light, but he was loved, and he is remembered…All who knew Laci Peterson have mourned two deaths, and the law cannot look away and pretend there was just one."
While he was signing the law, President Bush made a statement that gives us a clue as to how important this legislation can be. “With this action, we widen the circle of compassion and inclusion in our society, and we reaffirm that the United States of America is building a culture of life.”
Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council, echoed Bush’s remarks. “Today marks a tremendous victory for the pro-life movement. We are now one giant step closer to rebuilding a culture of life, where every child - born and unborn - is given the protections they so clearly deserve.”
This is a key point that should cause everyone who believes the Bible to rejoice. Since the Roe v Wade decision by Supreme Court Justices influenced by Satan, America has been governed by a culture of death. The inevitable next step after murdering unborn babies was euthanasia, and we have already seen that happening. Nurses who murder elderly patients under their care often get off with no punishment. Prosecutors looked the other way for years while Jack Kevorkian murdered hundreds of elderly people.
Once a society approves murdering the elderly (after all, what good are they to society?), the next logical step is to follow Adolf Hitler’s lead: murder anyone who is “defective.” Doctors who have sworn an oath to do everything in their power to preserve life routinely allow babies born with Downs Syndrome and other birth defects to starve to death in their “hospitals.” They say they are doing the babies a favor, because life would be cruel to them. Ask any Downs child if they wished they had received that “favor.” Ask the parents of a child with a birth defect if they would give up the love and affection their child brings them for an “easier” life.
What comes next? Once a society’s conscience is so seared that it can accept the murder of babies in the womb, euthanasia of the elderly, and the killing of born children who have birth defects, it won’t be long before people with incurable diseases and victims of accidents are put to death “for their own good.” Incurable cancer? “Kill them.” Infected with Aids? “Give them the needle.” Paralyzed from the neck down by an accident? “They’d be better off dead.” No, they wouldn’t. Ask the millions of people who have been blessed by the ministry of Joni Erickson Tada.
Joni, as she is known worldwide, was left a quadriplegic as a teenager by a diving accident. Her radio and speaking ministry has encouraged millions. Every year her ministry provides family retreats for hundreds of special needs families. They have shipped over 14,000 refurbished wheelchairs to developing nations where physical therapists fit each chair to a needy disabled child or adult. Would these people be better off if Joni was considered a “burden to society” and euthanized? (Read Joni’s amazing biography at www.joniandfriends.org/about/tadabio.shtml .)
We know the answer to that question, but the Pro-Death crowd thinks differently. They like to call themselves “Pro-Choice,” but the baby doesn’t get a choice, so I refuse to use that term. They put the convenience of the mother ahead of the life of a child. In many, if not most cases the mother was too lazy or uncaring to use birth control during her fornication. So abortion becomes her birth control method.
Our nation needs to change from a culture of death to a culture of life, and this law is a giant step in the right direction. That’s why the Pro-Death people are foaming at the mouth. Pro-Abortion politician Diane Feinstein says that this is one more step toward outlawing abortions. She is right, and I praise the Lord for that.
The main priorities of the National Organization of Women are promoting the lesbian lifestyle and promoting abortion. So the opinion of their president, Kim Gandy, on this subject should come as no surprise. “George W. Bush and his anti-abortion allies are gloating today because they have exploited the devastating murder of a woman to attack the reproductive rights of all women.” “The devastating murder...” Every day hundreds of women are murdered in ways far more terrible, including being tortured. So what made Laci Peterson’s murder especially devastating? What made this murder so devastating is that two human beings died that day.
On the day we heard about the Peterson murder, I asked my wife a rhetorical question. “Why is this murder national news? Why this murder among the thousands of others?” The question answers itself. Because the lives of both Laci and Connor were snuffed out that day. On that day I had a sense that something good would come out of this tragedy. It has. America learned that Connor was a perfectly formed little boy, not a “lump of tissue” as the abortionists would have us believe. And the tide began to turn.
The Bible teaches us that life is precious. Humanists teach that life is only worthwhile if it “benefits society.” What an irredeemably selfish view! Unfortunately, humanists control the National Education Association, and thus they control what your children are being taught. Humanists also control Communist China, where they routinely murder infant girls because boys are more valuable to the society. If we allow the teacher’s union to continue to brainwash our children with their humanist lies, our nation will some day place as little value on human life as do the Communist Chinese.
As Tony Perkins said, "This law merely recognizes what common sense tells us all: There are two victims when a pregnant woman is harmed. More than a dozen lawsuits have challenged fetal homicide laws over the past few years, and every time the laws have been upheld by state courts, federal courts, and even the U.S. Supreme Court.” Then why did Kerry, Feinstein and the Democrat Party fight this law so bitterly? Because they want the power of life and death.
John Forbes Kerry has taken every opportunity to vote for death since he has been in the Senate. He even supported exporting death by voting for our taxes to be spent on abortions in other nations. George W. Bush is a protector of the unborn. If all other things were equal, if Bush was as big a tax-and-spend Socialist as Kerry, this point alone would cause me to vote for our President next November.
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