{"id":3300,"date":"2007-09-12T20:14:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T01:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/09\/12\/falling-far-from-the-tree\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T20:14:56","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T01:14:56","slug":"falling-far-from-the-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/09\/falling-far-from-the-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling far from the tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — Democrats who take a strong stand against abortion are few and far between — especially in the United States Senate. When Bob Casey defeated Rick Santorum for a Pennsylvania seat in the Senate pro-life advocates hoped Casey would vote the same as his predecessor; but, Casey cast his first pro-abortion vote last week.<\/p>\n

Last Thursday, the Senate debate an amendment to a bill sponsored by pro-abortion Sen. Barbara Boxer of California regarding the Mexico City Policy.<\/p>\n

Boxer’s amendment overturns the policy that President Reagan first instituted and President Bush revived in 2001 that protects taxpayers from funding groups that perform or promote abortions overseas.<\/p>\n

Pro-life groups strongly opposed the Boxer Amendment, but it was adopted on a 53-41 vote. Just 20 minutes later, pro-life Sen. Sam Brownback offered an amendment to undo the Boxer amendment but senators defeated it by the same margin.<\/p>\n

Casey voted for the Boxer amendment and but also for the Brownback amendment — taking a seemingly contradicting stand on the abortion funding issue.<\/p>\n

On Monday, as David Freddoso of National Review notes, Casey said on the Senate floor that he had made a mistake — but not because he voted to fund foreign abortions and abortion advocacy.<\/p>\n

He said that, on the pro-life Brownback amendment, \ufffdit was my intention to vote \ufffdnay.\ufffd Therefore, I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to change my vote since it will not affect the outcome of that vote.\ufffd
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Well at least Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson voted against it, but of course it passed with the help of the usual suspects of pro-abortion Republicans or Republicans that have a mixed pro-life record.<\/p>\n

As for Sen. Casey I wished this surprised me at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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