R.I.P. Senator Kennedy: Let us Honor the Dead by Protecting the Living

By Deacon Keith A Fournier
8/28/2009
Catholic Online

Excerpt:
"Back then the word “liberal” was associated with noble ideals. It involved having a concern for the poor and a bedrock belief that there were fundamental, inalienable human rights which must be recognized in the civil (positive) law because they were endowed by the Creator and revealed in the Natural Law.

As the years have past, the word has changed in its meaning and that claim has been eroded. However, it was that kind of noble “liberalism” which I thought characterized the late Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy when I was a younger man. I still remember that he began his political career as a strong defender of the rights of children in the womb. For example, in 1971, Senator Kennedy described his strongly Pro-Life position in these words: "While the deep concern of a woman bearing an unwanted child merits consideration and sympathy, it is my personal feeling that the legalization of abortion on demand is not in accordance with the value which our civilization places on human life. Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized -- the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grown old.” the rest

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