E. J. Dionne: ‘Dropping Babies,’ Abandoning Principles

[babylonsister]

‘Dropping Babies,’ Abandoning Principles
Posted on Aug 4, 2010

By E.J. Dionne, Jr.



Rather than shout, I’ll just ask the question in a civil way: Dear Republicans, do you really want to endanger your party’s greatest political legacy by turning the 14th Amendment to our Constitution into an excuse for election-year ugliness?

Honestly, I thought our politics could not get worse, and suddenly there appears this attack on birthright citizenship and the introduction into popular use of the hideous term “anchor babies,” children that illegal immigrants have for the alleged purpose of “anchoring” themselves to American rights and the welfare state.

Particularly depressing is the fact that the idea of repealing the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” was given momentum by one of the nation’s most reasonable conservatives.

“People come here to have babies,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. “They come here to drop a child. It’s called, ‘drop and leave.’ To have a child in America, they cross the border, they go to the emergency room, have a child, and that child’s automatically an American citizen. That shouldn’t be the case. That attracts people here for all the wrong reasons.”

Drop a child? How can a strong believer in the right to life use such a phrase?

I can’t do better on this than The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s estimable columnist Connie Schultz: “I have lived for more than half a century, and I have yet to meet a mother anywhere in the world who would describe the excruciating miracle of birth as ‘dropping’ a baby.”

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[alsame]

1. That term is disgusting and offensive to all women everywhere. nt

[Bitwit1234]

2. But we should ask Graham this question

"Senator Graham when you were "dropped" at birth did you land on your head and therefore scramble your brains which caused the injury to your compassion.?"

[BlueIdaho]

3. Who calls it dropping babies?

So far the only people I have heard use that disgusting and degrading term are leaders in the republican tea party.

[msanthrope]

4. How can a pro-lifer use a term 'Drop a child?' Let me tell you how

E.J.....

By the time it's ready to be 'dropped,' it's identifiably darker than what Sen. Graham considers to be the color of true Americans.

Nine months before, it's a bunch of cells connected to the divine by mythology and patriarchy, so it's precious....

But life is on a continuum to these motherfuckers...so they give a shit not at all for those who have left the womb.