McFreedom

So, Kerry the Catholic said, the other day, "I oppose abortion, personally. I don't like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception." However, he further comments, "I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an atheist."

What a cowardly, immoral stance! The morality of murder is at the heart of the abortion debate. While it might be technically true that "at conception" cells are alive, that phrase is used as shorthand for "human life begins at conception." If an embryo is a human life, then killing it is as wrong as killing any human life, and the only moral position is to oppose abortion, for all people of all faiths. Just because Islamic Terrorists think their religiously-motivated killings are moral doesn't mean we can't make them illegal. The same is true of abortion - the vast majority of Americans believe there is a point where that fetus becomes a person, and killing it is immoral. We legislate that line and call it infanticide. What's at the core of the abortion debate is when those living cells in the embryo or fetus are human beings, and deserve legal protection. That's not an article of religious faith per se; it is quite possible to conceive of an atheist who believes that embryos are people, too.

So, either John Kerry believes human life begins at conception - in which case he is unwilling to lift so much as a finger to stop what he believes to be the murder of over a million of human beings per year. Or, he is calculatedly splitting hairs, saying things like "life begins at conception" when he doesn't mean "human life begins at conception," he means "biologically, embryos are alive," which is a statement no one disagrees with and sheds absolutely no light on his stance on the morality of abortion while making him seem like a pro-lifer who is too morally bankrupt to fight the good fight. Either way, it's not a terribly Presidential thing to say.