Now Senate Republicans are considering whether to imitate Bush’s mistake by making Specter chairman of the Judiciary committee. Pro-life Republicans are pondering whether to hand power to a man who thinks the Court’s abortion ruling is untouchable and sacrosanct. Would someone remind me, please, which party was it that they called the “stupid party?”
After 31 years of abortion on demand in America, the “values voters” who helped put George Bush back in the White House have every reason to expect a pro-life Supreme Court majority by 2008. President Bush, who said we should seek a “society that values life from its very beginnings to its natural end,” may fill up to four High Court vacancies in the next four years.
The end of Roe is at hand—just as it was in 1987. But if Arlen Specter becomes chairman, it will be Bork II all over again and who knows how many more million unborn children will die.
D. James Kennedy, Ph.D., is President of Coral Ridge Ministries, a Christian broadcasting organization which reaches more than three million people weekly by radio and television. He is Senior Minister of the nearly 10,000 member Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, the author of more than 60 books, Founder and President of Evangelism Explosion—a lay evangelism training program used in every nation on earth, and Founder and Chancellor of Knox Theological Seminary in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
