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DNC Chairman Infuriates Abortion Backers

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 • 9:58 am


The headline almost reads like that’s a bad thing:

Tim Kaine, the Virginia governor and President Barack Obama’s hand-picked choice as the head of the Democratic National Committee, infuriated abortion-rights groups Monday by signing legislation that gives abortion foes a long-sought victory.

Kaine brushed off intense lobbying by abortion rights supporters in Richmond to sign a bill that allows Virginia motorists to advertise their anti-abortion views by sporting “Choose Life” specialty license plates.

The revenue from the specialty plates would go to crisis-pregnancy centers, which many abortion-rights backers believe proslyetize against abortion and encourage women to keep unwanted children.

If Kaine were merely the governor of the Old Dominion, the move might have been less notable. Kaine—a Catholic who says he is personally opposed to abortion but pledged to leave the right to choose intact—won office in Virginia partly by seeking to reassure social conservatives.

But he is now on a national stage. And his decision could echo among women’s activists who are among the most powerful financial supporters of the party.


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Kaine—a Catholic who says he is personally opposed to abortion but pledged to leave the right to choose intact

I am personally opposed to murder, but I will leave intact the Mafia’s right to whack whomever they chose.
The RCC has porclaimed that abortion is sin.  They have a wonderful opportunity to show they mean it by such things as not giving honorary degrees to promoters of the culture of death and denying communion or even excommunicating those who promote baby murder.  I hope the do, but they may just prove to be another barking toothless dog.  I hope not.

[1] Posted by PROPHET MICAIAH on 03-31-2009 at 10:27 AM • top

So much for “pro choice”.

[2] Posted by Positive Phototaxis on 03-31-2009 at 10:30 AM • top

They’re upset about LICENSE PLATES?  They’re upset about clinics counseling people to NOT KILL THEIR BABIES?

This is the sickest thing I’ve ever heard.  So-called abortion-rights groups are nothing more than large-scale supporters of murder of the innocent. 

You know, in our youth we do crazy things, but hopefully one day we grow up and realize the import of our positions and actions, and the effect they have on the world around us.  These abortion-rights protestors are mired in perpetual childhood.  Time they should grow up.

KTF!...mrb

[3] Posted by Mike Bertaut on 03-31-2009 at 10:43 AM • top

Nowhere in the Bible is there anything which says it’s permissible to abort….read murder….one’s unborn fetus.  Therefore, how can any woman or girl who claims to be a Christian do this and still call herself a Christian?  ALL life is sacred, and that includes an unborn human fetus.

[4] Posted by Cennydd on 03-31-2009 at 11:58 AM • top

Agreed Cennydd (#4).  In fact, Moses even lays out the sanctions against one who would unintentionally cause a woman to miscarry.
  I am perplexed though by uber-abortion crowd.  This group that would be the first to flambe a fetus will shriek like harpies against the execution of a heinous criminal.

[5] Posted by aterry on 03-31-2009 at 12:05 PM • top

The revenue from the specialty plates would go to crisis-pregnancy centers, which many abortion-rights backers believe proslyetize against abortion and encourage women to keep unwanted children.

This interferes with the so-called “right” to choose to have an abortion, how, exactly? Methinks what it really interferes with is the revenue stream of abortion clinics. This is not about the “rights” of pregnant women. It is about the “rights” of abortion clinics to make huge profits without interference from pesky Christians who, horror of horrors, may wish to pay a premium to obtain a choose life license tag and to direct that extra money to centers who will encourage a pregnant woman to look at an ultrasound image of her unborn child and to think of her unwanted child as an actual human being who is a blessing from God. 

You journeyed to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far off, and sent down even to Sheol.  <b>Isaiah 57:9.

[6] Posted by Rick H on 03-31-2009 at 12:19 PM • top

I love this…

“We provided him with abundant information,” she said. “We’re terribly disappointed that he decided to sign it.”

—-Paulette McElwain, the president of the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood.

Typical - if you give someone <u>abundant information</u>, then they should agree with you, right?  They disagree because they are uninformed, right?

“It is unfortunate that, even after receiving thousands of messages from Virginians and pro-choice activists across the country, Gov. Kaine has opted to sign a bill that advances a divisive political ideology at the expense of women’s health,” NARAL/Pro-Choice America president Nancy Keenan said in a statement.

Now, being pro-choice is a “divisive political ideology”, while (as we learned on another thread), “abortion is a blessing”.

I’m glad I’ve got it all straight now.

[7] Posted by GillianC on 03-31-2009 at 12:19 PM • top

OH, and I thought it a poor joke a few weeks back when president Robama had his “health care summit” at the white house, who do you think, among all the government types, insurance types, hospital admins, docs, nurses, teachers, and fireman was invited?

The National Head of Planned Parenthood.  AT a Health Care Conference!!!  Like anything they do improves anyone’s health one iota!!!

I figure they are probably trying to get more Medicaid plans to pay for abortions.

KTf!...mrb

[8] Posted by Mike Bertaut on 03-31-2009 at 12:23 PM • top

#8. Mike Bertaut,
Now that he is firmly implanted in office maybe the new phrase should be, “Change we hadn’t hoped for”. Help me once again with your neologisms. Unpack the word “Robama”. I know about Beerkat and the Phipps, ROTFL etc.
Pax

[9] Posted by Fr. Dale on 03-31-2009 at 12:30 PM • top

Oh, sorry, I use Robama to refer to the fact that he’s robotic in his delivery and highly dependant on his teleprompter.  Since he has essentially given Harry Reid (idiot) and Nancy Pelosi (heretic moron) control of the country, I figure at this point he’s being reduced to a “robotic mouthpiece Obama” or Robama for short.

It’s a personal theory I get more evidence on every day.  No matter what he thinks, or what he thinks his Presidency should achieve, if he doesn’t muzzle those crazies running the House and Senate, his will go down in history as the most diastrous Presidency since Nixon, perhaps ever.

My two cents….since you asked and all!

How are things in the Sunny Central Valley?  I love that place!

KTF!...mrb

[10] Posted by Mike Bertaut on 03-31-2009 at 12:37 PM • top

Sorry Mike even Carter tops Nixon as worst in my book. I can’t decite if Clinton is second or third on that list…but Carter is first.

[11] Posted by bob+ on 03-31-2009 at 12:52 PM • top

Poor Jimmy Carter!  The world around him is collapsing and he’s telling the gardner how to trim the roses!

Although I have great respect for Navy “nucs”, I’m not sure the engineering side is cut out for administration!  At least Carter was poor evidence thereof!

Good Point Bob+!....mrb

[12] Posted by Mike Bertaut on 03-31-2009 at 01:05 PM • top

I disagree that Obama has relinquished control to Pelosi and Reid, he’s given them greater latitude, but he’s very much in control of what is coming out of DC. Now, I do believe that he’s serving outside interests, and they happen to be the same ones that Bush served.

As to order of bad presidents, I have to say, despite what Nixon did, I don’t believe he was as bad as Carter and Clinton. I’m not cutting Nixon any slack, but I’ve come to realize that many of the concerns expressed about Carter and Clinton, back in the day, were true. The Obamacon, is far worse than Bush.. and that’s saying something, because imo, Bush was bad. The order itself isn’t so much important, because all three dems would be at the top, and given the fact that all three are advocating what Obama’s doing, they simply don’t care, they’re all monsters in my book.

[13] Posted by mari on 03-31-2009 at 01:10 PM • top

So the “choice” people want to abort free speech, too?

[14] Posted by Timothy Fountain on 03-31-2009 at 01:34 PM • top

I adopted my son from a “crisis pregnancy center” - Catholic Counseling Services.
To the best of my knowledge, they never counselled for keeping the baby.  They did, however, counsel against aborting the baby.  They counselled the mother trying to get to the best decisio for the baby.  If the mother chose to parent, then she was given resources to help her.  If she chose to put the baby up for adoption, CCS had state approved parents ready to adopt and the mother selected the adoptive family.

I have a very strong reason to be against abortion - my son.  I thank God daily that his birth mother did “choose life.”

YBIC,
Phil Snyder

[15] Posted by Philip Snyder on 03-31-2009 at 02:10 PM • top

If I lived in Virginia, I would get one right away. Not sure that logo is available on Texas plates yet - have not heard that it is.

By the way, I am personally opposed to Global Thermonuclear War, but…...I mean, gosh…..don’t those insane dictators have a right to choose…..?

[16] Posted by richard reed on 03-31-2009 at 02:44 PM • top

Richard it is available in Texas and has been for about 5 years.

[17] Posted by johnnyreb on 03-31-2009 at 02:47 PM • top

Well, I really like my Va plate with the Shenandoah mountains in the background, but I will certainly get one of these.

[18] Posted by Paul B on 03-31-2009 at 03:17 PM • top

#15 - Phil - YOU GO!!

The pro-choice leaders are so out of touch with reality it’s sickening.  Most people do not understand how rabid they are - many people are not really “pro-choice”, but don’t want the government regulating what folks do, etc.

Problem is this - life begins at conception.  At conception he or she deserves to be protected - even from their own mother.  It’s not an easy call…and I’m the last person to want more government.

[19] Posted by B. Hunter on 03-31-2009 at 03:37 PM • top

The intentional killing of a human being, whether he or she is an embryo or a fully-functioning person outside the womb, is murder….except when it is deemed medically necessary to save the life of the mother. 

Aborting a child simply because the mother-to-be doesn’t want the child for reasons that “it’s inconvenient,” or “my boyfriend can’t handle being responsible for raising a kid” just doesn’t cut it. 

Don’t want the kid?  Fine….don’t get pregnant in the first place!

[20] Posted by Cennydd on 03-31-2009 at 04:05 PM • top

I like to say that I am pro-choice - before conception.  I strongly support a woman’s (or man’s)right to not have sex. 
However, once another human being is conceived (and make no mistake - the “fetus” is human), then the time for “choice” is over.  The only question now is to parent or to put the child up for adoption.  My wife and I waited for 3 years to adopt our son.  I wonder how many children were killed before we adopted our son.

YBIC,
Phil Snyder

[21] Posted by Philip Snyder on 03-31-2009 at 05:40 PM • top

I disagree with Gov. Kaine on a number of issues, but I do have a lot of respect for the man.  He’s a good guy.

[22] Posted by Jeff in VA on 04-01-2009 at 07:51 AM • top

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