Kerry Shares Thoughts on Abortion, Entertainment Industry, Biggest Speech [View All]

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Sen. John Kerry Shares Thoughts on Abortion, Entertainment Industry, Biggest Speech of His Life
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July 22, 2004— Sen. John Kerry sat down for a wide-ranging interview with ABC News anchor Peter Jennings in Detroit today.

<snip>Jennings: Could you explain again to me what do you mean when you say "life begins at conception"?

Kerry: Well, that's what the Supreme Court has established is a test of viability as to whether or not you're permitted to terminate a pregnancy, and I support that. That is my test. And I, you know, you have all kinds of different evolutions of life, as we know, and very different beliefs about birth, the process of the development of a fetus. That's the standard that's been established in Roe v. Wade. And I adhere to that standard.

Jennings: If you believe that life begins at conception, is even a first-trimester abortion not murder?

Kerry: No, because it's not the form of life that takes personhood in the terms that we have judged it to be in the past. It's the beginning of life. Does life begin? Yes, it begins.

Is it at the point where I would say that you apply those penalties? The answer is, no, and I believe in choice. I believe in the right to choose, and the government should not involve itself in that choice, beyond where it has in the context of Roe v. Wade. <snip>