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...Powell, who had sailed through his own hearing, and as singer Kim Weston began the black national anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, the men were joined by Katherine Harris, late of Tallahassee, Fla. "Stony the road we trod,/Bitter the chastening rod,/Felt in the days when hope unborn had died," goes the anthem. "Yet with a steady beat,/Have not our weary feet,/Come to the place for which our fathers sighed...
Ashcroft once wrote, "If I had the opportunity to pass but a single law, I would fully recognize the constitutional right to life of every unborn child, and ban every abortion except for those medically necessary to save the life of the mother...
...every stage and season of life." Read by New Jersey Republican Chris Smith, a leader of the anti-abortion movement, the statement quoted Bush as saying: "The promises of our Declaration of Independence are not just for the strong, the independent or the healthy. They are for everyone, including unborn children.... We share a great goal, to work toward a day when every child is welcomed in life and protected in law... to build a culture of life, affirming that every person at every stage and season of life, is created equal in God's image...
Your report left me angry as hell. People protest against the wearing of fur; some politicians support protection of the environment; others fight for the rights of the unborn or a woman's right to choose. And while these are all important and noble causes, it seems strange to me that no one is marching to protest about poor foster care. Children are being neglected, abused and murdered by those who are "chosen" to protect and love them. Why isn't anyone fighting to be their voice? TERESA DI VITA-GEREMIA Tuckahoe...
...aren't also wealthy tend to derive their conservatism from religious fundamentalism. Like characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, these social conservatives revel in Bush's pledge to uphold "traditional values" by legislative fiat. Their ideology of government-mandated morality includes, among other things, rights for the unborn but not for all the born...