Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline Wants Your RecordsJesse Nathanbyline‚ Jan. 23‚ 2006Blue Thoughts From a Red State (Ed note: To help our readers get a taste of what life can be like in Red State America, Jesse Nathan’s “Blue Thoughts From a Red State” will be a regular feature in Beyond Chron. A Berkeley native who moved to Kansas as a teenager, Nathan reports to us from his home in Lawrence, Kansas) While I am not a part of the Christian Right, do not believe Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson have much worthwhile to tell me, and I do not support Samuel Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court, I consider myself “pro-life.” Confused? Consider this: I am so pro-life that I cannot bear to see the United States return to an era in which women died routinely as they desperately tried to administer back-alley, coat-hanger abortions. These women’s lives were constantly endangered by policies that restricted abortion access. I cannot support any policy that allows such death. Thus, I am pro-life. |