Partial birth abortion advocate Cory Booker condemns 'horror' of animal research

Jim Jamitis | 1:20 AM on January 29, 2015

At least we know that people who support partial-birth late term abortions can be horrified by something (other than living babies).

The horror that is America’s government-funded animal research center: http://t.co/ZEV8ZPz07q

— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) January 29, 2015

https://twitter.com/tahliamayte/status/560646889507663872

@CoryBooker i just got so uneasy I couldn't finish reading the article

— melissa (@mwaldron03) January 29, 2015

Yes, it’s unsettling.

Pigs, the Times reports, are birthing 14 piglets instead eight, cows are giving birth to two calves instead of one, and lambs are birthing babies that have hair instead of fur. The piglets being born are so weak, and the mothers are so large, that piglets are routinely being crushed by their mothers.

You should try boning up on a guy named Kermit Gosnell sometime.

.@CoryBooker @robferdman
Thank you for calling public attention to this atrocity.https://t.co/LQPBMWKEtf
c: @HumaneSociety @aspca

— Bren Buras-Elsen (@brenisphere) January 29, 2015

Of course real animal cruelty is something we should condemn but what about when it comes to human beings?

https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/560671836254793728

National Review Online’s Eliana Johnson addressed the question in NARAL’s Guy:

To be sure, Booker doesn’t need much encouragement from NARAL. He opposes parental-consent laws for minors, which he has said may constitute an “undue burden.” He opposes the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, passed by bipartisan congressional majorities in 2003 and later upheld by the Supreme Court — though, curiously, in Friday’s debate with his Republican opponent Steve Lonegan, he said that he supports the federal abortion laws currently on the books. He is a proponent of taxpayer funding for abortions in nearly all instances.