A Game: Quotes from Morality and Politics

Here is the game, I will provide two quotes, you guess of who said it or where it is contained. I’ll provide the answer and explanation.

#1 “Existing law is clearly not doing enough to protect the youngest, smallest, most vulnerable members of our society.”

ANSWER: Was that Rick Santorum or Pat Robertson again? No. Democratic Assemblywoman from California, Sally Lieber. And no, she was not discussing the latest atrocities of infanticide promoted by Barack Obama and his failure to support the Infants Born Alive Bill. Nor was she discussing the frailty and most vulnerable members of society who have not passed through the birth canal. She made those comments in support of a California bill that will prevent spanking of children under three-years-old. The bill seeks to prevent people from “willfully” inflicting “unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering” on a child. Yeah, I guess that reasoning applies to corporal punishment. Why not abortion?

#2 “The use of an implement, including, but not limited to, a stick, a rod, a switch, an electrical cord, an extension cord, a belt, a broom, or a shoe . . . [or] brandishing a deadly weapon upon a child” can be used to determine “whether or not a defendant willfully caused any child to suffer, or inflicted unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering.”

ANSWER: California Bill AB 2943 (anti-corporal punishment bill). I think this statute is missing some “implements”, perhaps the following should be included: curettes (sharp, hoe-like instruments), medical suction devices, forceps used to dismember appendages, long-curved Mayo scissors for decapitation and dismemberment, scissor penetration in the back of the skull, and administration of Methotrexate-Misprostol and Mifepristone-Misoprostol. Each of those is already being administered on a daily basis to thousands of young, unborn Americans. Why not extend the reasoning of the corporal punishment bill to abortion?