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John Danforth Resigns as US Ambassador to UN - Pro-Life Replacement Sought
WASHINGTON, December 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Bush administration has most impressively demonstrated its commitment to the right to life and the dignity of the family through its actions at the United Nations. One key player in that development is resigning.
John Danforth, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, has resigned from his post and pro-life Americans and others around the world will be looking to President Bush to replace him with another principled, pro-life, pro-family ambassador.
Danforth, 68, said in his letter of resignation that he was going to be spending more time with his wife. News reports indicate his wife was recently ill.
Danforth is a well-known advocate for the pro-life cause, maintaining a 100 percent pro-life voting record during his several years in politics.
In a 1974 speech to a right-to-life audience, while acting as Attorney General of Missouri, Danforth described his legal battle with the U.S. Supreme Court in Rogers v. Danforth. Filed in 1970, Danforth argued that Missouri's law allowing abortion violated individual protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
Danforth expressed hope in his bid to overturn the abortion law, " . . . what we are seeking to do is what never has been done in any Court before, and that is to present medical evidence which, I believe, if presented to a Court, would demonstrate, quite strongly, that an unborn child is, as a matter of medical fact, human life before it is born."
"Now, if we lose in Court, we have lost the battle but we have not lost the war, because we must still continue to work for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to protect the unborn," he emphasized. " . . . And that it is never permissible . . . it is never a permissible exercise of human freedom . . . to kill what annoys us and what causes us trouble."
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