…and the issue where you won’t find any flip-flopping

Like Bill Clinton, the womanizer who would waffle on everything except “women’s issues,” Kerry is a reliable vote for NARAL. He marched with militant feminists on the streets of New York in the 1970s. During the primaries, Kerry tried to wow NARAL activists by claiming that his maiden speech as a senator was a ringing endorsement of Roe v. Wade. He had to abandon the assertion after reporters discovered it was bogus, but The Congressional Record shows plenty of later speeches. In 1986 he rose to defend the right of federal prisoners to abort their unborn children. He applauded a court decision which held that “inmates not only have the constitutional right to an abortion for medical reasons, but that abortions must be paid for by the Government.”

This week Kerry again defended the right of criminals to kill unborn children — criminals in this case assaulting women and their unborn children. He voted with the minority bloc in the Senate against the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. The bill stated that if an assailant attacks a pregnant woman the assailant can be charged for offenses against both the woman and the unborn child. Kerry “interrupted” his campaign, the press reported, to vote against the bill.

Kerry would rather protect abortion than prosecute criminals. Unborn children in his view don’t even deserve the rights of criminals. Where criminals possess some rights, in his view, unborn children possess none at all.