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DeMint vs Clinton

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Location: BlogsNews & Commentary - The NSO Blog    
Posted by: admin 2/3/2009
Senator Jim DeMint voted against Hillary Clinton's confirmation as Secretary of State because of her support of abortion is a gratuitous and irrelevant attack because the position of Secretary of State has nothing to do with the abortion debate. Besides, this is the only issue on which Clinton defends individual rights
 
DeMint undercuts any defense of individual rights he might make in economics when he attacks a woman's right to an abortion.
 
He displays irrationality when he claims that a "fertilized egg" - a zygote - is a human being because this is false by observation. An acorn is not an oak; a tadpole isn't a frog; a caterpillar isn't a moth; and a zygote is not a human being.
 
A claim without evidence is arbitrary, and DeMint's claim of full human rights for a fertilized egg is an arbitrary assertion based on religious dogma. Such a claim has no basis in scientific evidence or in the Constitution. The inevitable result of basing political decisions on religious dogma is to force a religious viewpoint onto the American people and to destroy the separation of church and state.
 

So, though I cheered Senator DeMint during his opposition to the TARP bailouts, I sadly conclude that he is not a consistent friend of freedom and reason.  His vote shows that he advocates the altruist morality of self sacrifice (voluntary cannibalism) as advocated by Christianity and all other religions.

Ted

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Objectivism is the philosophy of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand.   Miss Rand's most important statement of Objectivism is found in her famous novel Atlas ShruggedThe primary source for additional information about Ayn Rand is the Ayn Rand Institute, and their site dedicated to her books, AynRandNovels.com.

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