If someone believes that an unborn baby is \u201cnot a human being\u201d or \u201cnot a person,\u201d he or she is gravely mistaken, but his or her advocacy of legal abortion and its public funding is at least coherent and understandable. What is not coherent or understandable is the position of people like Tim Kaine and Joe Biden who claim to believe that the unborn are human beings, that wantonly killing them is morally wrong, but that they should be excluded from the protection of the laws that protect the rest of us against unjust killing, and that public money should be used to pay for snuffing out their lives. \u2013 Prof Robert P. George<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If someone believes that an unborn baby is \u201cnot a human being\u201d or \u201cnot a person,\u201d he or she is gravely mistaken, but his or her advocacy of legal abortion and its public funding is at least coherent and understandable. What is not coherent or understandable is the position of people like Tim Kaine and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-97511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-and-related-horrors"],"yoast_head":"\n
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