Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Miller (D-GA), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Dayton (D-MN), Yea
Daschle (D-SD), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Breaux (D-LA), Yea
In addition to all the Republicans, there are now a dozen Democratic Senators whom the women of America can no longer rely on to make a clear distinction between fetal tissue and a real live human being--at least not when it comes to recognizing legal "rights".
That's what the Senators from Louisiana(Breaux and Landrieu), North and South Dakota (Conrad, Dorgan and Daschle), Delaware (Carper), Minnesotta (Dayton), Nebraska (Nelson), Arkansas (Pryor), Nevada (Reid), West Virginia (Rockefeller) and, of course, Georgia's Zell Miller did last week when they voted to provide the same level of protection to fetal tissue as to the woman in whom it happens to reside.
Of course, given the low level of protection women normally receive from the federal government, that might not mean much in practice. But the legal precedent being set by this legislation--making a part equal to the whole--is upsetting, just because it is so illogical.
While we have become used to irrational argument from radical Republicans, the realization that, in addition to the renegade Zell Miller, so many Democrats are no longer committed to legislating on a rational basis makes clear, once again, that our representatives in both houses of Congress are in dire need of direction from common sense citizens.
There shouldn't be any doubt that the whole is greater (and therefor more important) than its parts.
Posted by Hannah at March 30, 2004 10:14 AM