SOBer Steubenville Prolife Shoutout

When I read the story about Bill Clinton’s appearance in Steubenville, Ohio, and his lash-out at prolife students there, I thought an SOBer might be involved:

Speaking to a protester who held up a sign that read “Abortion Kills Children,” Clinton said while on “our watch” the Clintons were able to reduce the abortion rate without eliminating abortion rights.

During his administration, “We had the lowest teen pregnancy rate since the statistics had been kept when we were doing that.

And guess what? Without overturning Roe v. Wade, or trying to keep people all torn up and upset or calling them killers, the abortion rate went down almost 20 percent on our watch,” said Clinton, who twice during his administration vetoed a ban on partial-birth abortions.

Abortions declined between 1993 and 2000 from 1.5 million to 1.31 million, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute. The number continued to decline to 1.21 million through 2005, the last year of available data from AGI.

That reduction stat calculates to 13% (.19 million decrease divided by 1.5 million), and, regardless, has absolutely nothing to do with anything the Clinton Administration initiated. What an incredible load of rubbish from Mr. Clinton about “saving more lives.”

Anyway, my prime SOBer “suspect” was Franciscan Conservative’s Billy Valentine.

I suspected correctly, as reported by Students for Life:

“I gave you the answer. We disagree with you,” Clinton said. “You wanna criminalize women and their doctors and we disagree. I reduced abortion. Tell the truth, tell the truth, If you were really pro-life, if you were really pro-life, you would want to put every doctor and every mother as an accessory to murder in prison. And you won’t say you wanna do that because you know, that you wouldn’t have a lick of political support. Now, the issue is who, the issue is, you can’t name me anybody presently in politics that did more to introduce policies that reduce the number of real abortions instead of the hot air putting out to tear people up and make votes by dividing America. This is not your rally. I heard you. That’s another thing you need is a president, somebody who will stick up for individual rights and not be pushed around, and she won’t.”

….. Clinton’s heated response came after being questioned on his support of abortion-on-demand. The outburst is on YouTube and is also being reported by MSNBC.

“Perhaps pro-abortion politicians will finally realize that they can’t hide their views from pro-life students,” said Billy Valentine, one of the Franciscan University of Steubenville Students for Life members who helped organize the protest of over 100 students. “Our generation is pro-life. It is amazing that these pro-abortion politicians think that they can continuously support the killing of millions of unborn children and no one will express their dissatisfaction.

Once again, no identifiable Clinton-initiated policy or program reduced abortions. None (welfare reform, to the extent it could be credited, doesn’t count, because Clinton didn’t initiate it, and mightily resisted it).

Well done, sir. Pro-abort politicians enter Steubenville at their political peril; that is as it should be. The day is coming when pro-abort politicians assuming that any given crowd of young people supports abortion on demand will do so at their political peril.

Of course, Mr. Valentine wasn’t quoted by anyone in Old Media.

A vid is also at the Students for Life link.

__________________________________________________

Flashback: John Kerry had a similar Steubenville experience in 2004 (2nd item at link), and Franciscan U had a big hand in that:

Before Kerry arrived there was a huge pro-life march led by Franciscan University students, 500 strong. “You can’t be Catholic and pro-abortion”, read some of their signs. Students and members of local Catholic parishes were full of energy and FoxNews reported that this was the largest protest against Kerry outside of the Democratic Convention. Just picture 500 pro-lifers marching from their college campus to meet Kerry. Where else but in Steubenville, Ohio! Though the Franciscan University did not organize the event, it is well known for its orthodox Catholic education which encourages students to put their faith into action. These students simply cherish their Catholic faith and could not stand to let Kerry use their faith as a political prop.

__________________________________________________

UPDATE: Y’all are developing a reputation. Here’s a report from a West Virginia TV station —

The crowd was largely friendly, but as always in Steubenville they sparred over abortion.