Newsweek's Ben Adler Thinks He's Found 'Rand Paul's Abortion Hypocrisy'
Promising his Twitter followers a look at "Rand Paul's Abortion Hypocrisy," Newsweek staffer Ben Adler linked to a January 28 story he wrote for the magazine's The Gaggle blog misleadingly entitled "Rand Paul Wants to Ban Abortions and End Birthright Citizenship."
As pertains to the former, his co-sponsorship of the Life at Conception Act, Paul's aim is for federal law to declare unborn babies to be persons as defined by the 14th Amendment whose right to life shall not be infringed without due process of law.
As to Adler's second, misleading allegation, Paul hopes to pass an amendment that, if ratified, would clarify that persons born to illegal immigrants on U.S. soil are not automatically American citizens. It would not "end birthright citizenship" as the Newsweek.com headline claims, although it would restrict it.
"It’s not clear where the fetus in an illegal immigrant’s uterus would fit into this equation," a smarmy Adler quipped, conflating the separate matters of citizenship and protection of essential human rights.
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Desperation?
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 4:30pm.
This seems more like another desparate attempt by yet another uber-lib writer (I refuse to call 'em journalists any longer) to demonize conservatives and conservatism. I hope it backfires on them all.
Modifying One's Terminology
Submitted by BuffNBone on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 6:32pm.
As you revise your terms, In the interests of accuracy, may is suggest "stenographer" instead of "writer".
Rand Paul wants to end
Submitted by Van Halen on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 4:41pm.
Rand Paul wants to end abortion and birthright citizenship?
What's wrong with that?
And on another note, Newsweek is still around?
Yeah!
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 6:58pm.
I'm all for that, ending abortion and birthright citizenship
Guess Adler is for baby killing and letting all who are born here, whether the parents are citizens or not, be a citizen. Typical lefty.
Would Newsweek's Ben Adler treat Jimmy Carter or the Dalai Lama
Submitted by Gary Hall on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 5:37pm.
Life begins at conception. It should be widely known, that former President Jimmy Carter and the Dalai Lama would agree with that view.
Carter: "I never have felt that any abortion should be committed -- I think each abortion is the result of a series of errors" [..] "These things impact other issues on which [Mr. Bush] and I basically agree," the Georgia Democrat said. "I've never been convinced, if you let me inject my Christianity into it, that Jesus Christ would approve abortion."
Dalai Lama: ‘Abortion, from a Buddhist viewpoint, is an act of killing.’
That's what it is - you're killing the unborn living child. It is not a tumor to be removed.
Would Newsweek's Ben Adler treat Jimmy Carter or the Dalai Lama in this fashion, or is this only reserved for Republicans?
(;~/ gary
The myth of hypocrisy
Submitted by KC Mulville on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 7:43pm.
Adler's argument is that anyone who supports the "Life Begins at Conception" argument wants government to intrude in our personal lives, which they think contradicts with the whole limited government idea.
These people are fools or are deliberately mis-portraying conservatism as a no-government movement. They're portraying conservatism as if we don't want any government at all, which is simply not true.
I have to say that I really
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 7:52pm.
I have to say that I really am starting to like this Rand Paul the more I get to know about him.
Ben Adler obviously doesn't
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 8:22pm.
Ben Adler obviously doesn't know that "person" and "citizen" are not synonyms.
An unborn child is a "person," but if anything, would be a "citizen" of the same country as its mother. Whether and how that "person" becomes a US "citizen" is a matter of US immigration law.
The unborn baby's citizenship doesn't change with location, any more than the mother's does.
If the US can change the law to saying that birth IN this country (of an illegal mother) doesn't confer automatic citizenship, what does a "personhood" law for unborn babies have to do with it?
Please...
Submitted by KyWriter on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 9:02pm.
...when will this miserable rag finish its death throes? I would almost sympathize with their agony if I didn't despise what they have done to journalism over the years. What passes for news in their publication has far less integrity than porn.
From Animal
Submitted by buddyc on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 9:59am.
From Animal House:
"D-Day: War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling."
Adler=Bluto