Princeton University Prof. Robert P. George, who sits on Americans United for Life’s Board of Advisors, recently engaged in a discussion at the National Press Club with Pepperdine University Prof. Douglas Kmiec, who created a stir during the last presidential campaign with his assertion that Barack Obama’s agenda supported the pro-life movement’s goals.
George’s opening speech, “Obama and His Pro-Life Apologists,” outlined the stark differences between his views and those of Kmiec:
So it is clear that what divides us as a nation, and what divides Barack Obama, on one side, from Robert George and Douglas Kmiec, on the other, is not whether the being whose life is taken in abortion and in embryo-destructive research is a living individual of the human species—a human being; it is whether all human beings, or only some, possess fundamental dignity and a right to life.
