In Twenty Years . . . Why Democrat Leaders Turned On Their Heels Against Pro-Lifers
By DEXTER DUGGAN Highly placed Catholic liberal Democrats were outraged when President Bill Clinton in April 1996 issued the first of what was to be two vetoes of congressional bills against repellent partial-birth abortion. His other stubborn veto came in October 1997. The Slickster, as some foes called Clinton, insisted on the slaughter, and Catholic Democrats later learned to eat defeat with a shrug. As the first of the two bills had proceeded on the legislative pathway from the House to the Senate, columnist George Will noted in his column in Newsweek on December 11, 1995, that 73 House Democrats voted for this pro-life bill. In her opinion column in the April 14, 1996, Washington Post, just after the first…Continue Reading