Thursday, November 02, 2006
Is Junior pro-life?
Harold Ford, Jr., aka Junior, appeared on MSNBC and Fox News this week claiming to be pro-life. National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez has written an excellent piece in which she deftly shows that Junior's claim to be pro-life is perhaps the biggest whopper he's told during his whopper-filled campaign. A sample:
"Among his most notable votes cast on this front, Ford voted against 'Laci and Conner’s Law,' which recognizes an unborn child who is injured or killed in the commission of a federal crime as a child and crime victim. Even though the bill was not explicitly about abortion, abortion groups considered its implications and thought long term — if we give in here, will it hurt us later? They knew it could very well, and so they opposed the bill, despite Conner Peterson. And so did Harold Ford, even though all but one member of the Tennessee congressional delegation voted for it."
"Among his most notable votes cast on this front, Ford voted against 'Laci and Conner’s Law,' which recognizes an unborn child who is injured or killed in the commission of a federal crime as a child and crime victim. Even though the bill was not explicitly about abortion, abortion groups considered its implications and thought long term — if we give in here, will it hurt us later? They knew it could very well, and so they opposed the bill, despite Conner Peterson. And so did Harold Ford, even though all but one member of the Tennessee congressional delegation voted for it."
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, November 02, 2006 
