Here's a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. Like actress Patricia Heaton, former Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl Kathy Ireland is pro-life, as she made clear in a September 30, 2002 appearance on the Fox News channel’s Hannity and Colmes.
I don’t care for Hannity, who strikes me as too glib (need a better catchphrase for dangerous times than "let not your heart be troubled," Sean), but Alan Colmes, the progressive half of the H & C duo, is insufferable, not to mention a Crayon or two short of a full box.
When Colmes made the same mistake that John Kerry always does, trying to characterize opposition to abortion as an exclusively “religious” position, Ireland challenged him on it. An excerpt from the transcript:
IRELAND: I know it's not a popular issue. And I was always pro- choice. I'm a person who always has and always will fight for the rights of women. And even though I became a Christian at age 18, I remained pro- choice because I believed it was a woman's choice. But the moment that I learned that the unborn was a human being, not part of the woman's body.. HANNITY: Yes. IRELAND: ...but its own individual human being, I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us. HANNITY: Well, it's admirable, because I agree with you on the position. And especially with what modern technology now offers in terms of our ability to see inside a woman's womb. IRELAND: Absolutely. HANNITY: And the heart beating and the fingers and the toes. IRELAND: You really can't argue with it. Technology has come a long way since Roe vs. Wade. HANNITY: I can't. IRELAND: And Alan, I welcome you to please refute my claim. HANNITY: There's no hope. IRELAND: Not to dismiss it, but refute it. HANNITY: No hope for him, Kathy. IRELAND: I welcome it, or if any of your viewers can. [break] COLMES: ...you invited me in the last segment, and time was really short, to refute your views, when life begins. HANNITY: Will you leave Kathy alone? You're always taking her on when she comes on. Leave her alone. COLMES: The sympathy -- she's going for the sympathy vote. Can you believe that? Look, the idea is that you have a particular view, which I respect. That's your point of view. You come from a religious point of view. Other people have different religious points of view. Or sometimes... IRELAND: This doesn't come from my faith, though. You can be an atheist... COLMES: I understand. IRELAND: ...and you can realize that it's wrong to take the life of an innocent human being.
How cool is it when a supermodel takes a talk show host (and, by implication, some journalists and U.S. Senators) to school by wielding an argument derived from Natural Law? Very cool indeed!
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I think it speaks well of her that she was able to grasp the "Live baby good, dead baby bad" without having had to undergo the trauma of an abortion herself. Who says models are all airheads?
OT: On this date in 1971, Carole Schaner became the second woman in four months to bleed to death from an outpatient hysterotomy abortion performed by former criminal abortionist Dr. Jesse Ketchum. Carole left four children motherless.
I was a victim of Dr. Jesse Ketchum in 1970. I was pronounced DOA at and ER; they brought me back to life. I don't remember where the hospital was, but the abortion took place in Royal Oak MI.
I bled to death. I received blood transfusions and now have Hep C.
Dr. Ketchum should have been given the death penalty.
My pregnancy was the result of a serial rapist. After both of these victimizations, I don't know if I will ever be "sane".
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