On 04-10-98, ROBERT CRAFT declared to ROBERT PLETT:
RC> RP> Nice spin, but let's be clear about what it was they
RC> RP> lobbied for, Robert. It wasn't about banning someone; they
RC> RP> lobbied for continued party funding and support of
RC> RP> political figures who favor the PBA.
RC>"A rose by any other name..." The fact is that a minority
RC>faction of the party attempted to sanction members who
RC>supported an item which 1) was legal and 2) was not a plank
RC>of the party platform on which opposition was required.
From the '96 Republican platform:
   The unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which
   cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the
   Constitution and we endorse legislation to make clear that the
   Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children. Our
   purpose is to have legislative and judicial protection of that right
   against those who perform abortions. We oppose using public revenues
   for abortion and will not fund organizations which advocate it. We
   support the appointment of judges who respect traditional family
   values and the sanctity of innocent human life.
   Our goal is to ensure that women with problem pregnancies have the
   kind of support, material and otherwise, they need for themselves and
   for their babies, not to be punitive towards those for whose
   difficult situation we have only compassion. We oppose abortion, but
   our pro-life agenda does not include punitive action against women
   who have an abortion. We salute those who provide alternatives to
   abortion and offer adoption services. Republicans in Congress took
   the lead in expanding assistance both for the costs of adoption and
   for the continuing care of adoptive children with special needs. Bill
   Clinton vetoed our adoption tax credit the first time around - and
   opposed our efforts to remove racial barriers to adoption - before
   joining in this long overdue measure of support for adoptive
   families.
   Worse than that, he vetoed the ban on partial-birth abortions, a
   procedure denounced by a committee of the American Medical
   Association and rightly branded as four-fifths infanticide. We
   applaud Bob Dole's commitment to revoke the Clinton executive orders
   concerning abortion and to sign into law an end to partial-birth
   abortions.
Must be that all of that, the first and next to last sentences in
particular, is just meaningless drivel to be tossed aside whenever what
it says is politically inconvenient, eh?
Pardon me and that upstart "minority faction" for being so foolish as to
insist the party hold itself and its candidates to the principles it
claims it stands for.
Bob     /\-/\   - proud Ilk   homebody@galstar.com
C.A.T. ( o o ) Chapter Ilks
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Green Country - Oklahoma      http://www.galstar.com/~homebody/
 * SLMR 2.1a * If they can do a PBA, they can kill at any time.
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