Thursday, July 08, 2004

Kerry's exceptional um ... integrity

Last Sunday (July 4th, 2004), John Kerry is reported as having told Iowa's Telegraph Herald that he is personally opposed to abortion:
"I oppose abortion, personally. I don't like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception."
However, at last year's NARAL Pro-Choice America Dinner, he declared:
"There is no overturning of Roe v. Wade... We need to honestly and confidently and candidly take this issue out to the country and we need to speak up and be proud of what we stand for."
But his blockbuster statement comes from the 1994 Congressional Record:
[A]bortions need to be moved out of the fringes of medicine and into the mainstream of medical practice.
Amazing. What integrity ... that is, dis-integrity! That a mind could reach such proportions of dis-integration is stupifying. Then, of course, look at the times in which we live. (Thanks to Karl Keating's e-letter.)

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