Kerry's Answer to Debate Abortion Question

Kerry confirms, in a certain sense, that he supports taxpayer funded abortions:

GIBSON: Going to go to the final two questions now, and the first one will be for Senator Kerry. And this comes from Sarah Degenhart.

DEGENHART: Senator Kerry, suppose you are speaking with a voter who believed abortion is murder and the voter asked for reassurance that his or her tax dollars would not go to support abortion, what would you say to that person?

KERRY: I would say to that person exactly what I will say to you right now.

First of all, I cannot tell you how deeply I respect the belief about life and when it begins. I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.

But I can't take what is an article of faith for me and legislate it for someone who doesn't share that article of faith, whether they be agnostic, atheist, Jew, Protestant, whatever. I can't do that.

But I can counsel people. I can talk reasonably about life and about responsibility. I can talk to people, as my wife Teresa does, about making other choices, and about abstinence, and about all these other things that we ought to do as a responsible society.

But as a president, I have to represent all the people in the nation. And I have to make that judgment.

Now, I believe that you can take that position and not be pro- abortion, but you have to afford people their constitutional rights. And that means being smart about allowing people to be fully educated, to know what their options are in life, and making certain that you don't deny a poor person the right to be able to have whatever the constitution affords them if they can't afford it otherwise. (this seems to be a confirmation to me)

That's why I think it's important. That's why I think it's important for the United States, for instance, not to have this rigid ideological restriction on helping families around the world to be able to make a smart decision about family planning.

You'll help prevent AIDS.

You'll help prevent unwanted children, unwanted pregnancies.

You'll actually do a better job, I think, of passing on the moral responsibility that is expressed in your question. And I truly respect it.

He respects nothing...what a utterly pathetic example of a "Catholic"...and his defense of his opposition of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban is reprehensible - What did the Archdiocese of Boston do with Mark Balestrieri's heresy charge against Kerry? His own words convict him...

I wonder if he has a plan to return to the Church, his faith being so important to him? He says he has a "plan" for everything else.

And I forgot this response about appointing Supreme Court justices which occurred prior to the abortion question:

KERRY: What I want to find, if I am privileged to have the opportunity to do it -- and the Supreme Court of the United States is at stake in this race, ladies and gentlemen.

The future of things that matter to you -- in terms of civil rights, what kind of Justice Department you'll have, whether we'll enforce the law. Will we have equal opportunity? Will women's rights be protected? Will we have equal pay for women, which is going backwards? Will a woman's right to choose be protected?

These are constitutional rights, and I want to make sure we have judges who interpret the Constitution of the United States according to the law.

Judges who interpret the Constitution of the United States according to the law?

Isn't this BACKWARDS? Aren't judges to interpret laws according to the Constitution? And he is a lawyer? And where in the Constitution can one find a woman's right to choose to murder an unborn child? What an intellectually and morally bankrupt man he is...

Charity demands that we pray for his conversion.