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Specter Supported by Pro-life Turncoat Orrin Hatch

WASHINGTON, November 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator Orrin G. Hatch, (R.Utah) yesterday praised Arlen Specter saying he would support Specter’s bid for the Chairmanship of the Senate Judicial Committee. “Arlen is an excellent lawyer,” Mr. Hatch said. “I have total confidence that he will be supportive of the president and this administration.”

The barrage of phone calls, faxes and emails has continued as conservatives in the US and abroad have put on the pressure on the GOP leadership to prevent Specter’s appointment to the post that would allow him to block presidential court nominees. Specter has made no secret of his anti-Christian and anti-life biases.

Ann Coulter is quoted by Joseph Farah in the September Whistleblower as stating, “More than any other person in America, Arlen Spector is responsible for a runaway Supreme Court that has turned every political issue into a ‘constitutional’ matter, giving radical liberals an uninterrupted string of victories in the culture wars.”

Hatch is the current holder of the Chairmanship, and said, "I expect him to be a great chairman. And I'm going to help him.” Hatch added that most of the committee Republicans support Specter.

Hatch lost the confidence of conservatives and pro-lifers when he and pro-abortion Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced a bill that would allow cloning for the creation of human embryo farms and required that the embryos created be killed before full gestation. He made the bizarre claim that an embryo is not a human being unless it is implanted.

Since then Hatch has angered defenders of the traditional family by supporting, with notorious pro-abort Senator Ted Kennedy, a homosexual hate crimes bill that would criminalize criticism of the homosexual social engineering agenda.

Commenting on Specter’s impending appointment to the Chairmanship of the Judicial Committee, Hatch said, “The fact that he might be in total agreement with me or anybody else on the committee is irrelevant." Hatch claims that Specter intends to support Bush’s nominees for the Supreme Court, despite what Specter himself has said in newspaper interviews. “All I want is the committee to be operated in an honest, decent, effective manner, and I do want the administration to be supported,” said Hatch.

Previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage of Hatch’s flip-flops on life and family issues:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/nov/03111403.html
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/feb/03020504.html

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