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Quotation Marks

Recent comments on fetus life, abortion rights, and CCM piracy.

“The fetuses are alive at the time of the final delivery. … Very, very frequently, we notice that [the heart] is [beating].”

LeRoy Carhart, An abortionist attempting to defend partial-birth abortion in a federal court by claiming that “nearly all” abortions after the first trimester are essentially partial-birth.

“You’re moving into very dangerous precedent where doctors make moral decisions on what medical care they’ll provide.”

Gov. Jim Doyle, of Wisconsin, promising to veto a bill granting health care providers freedom to not perform abortions.

“We do hereby declare the doctrine of inclusionism is an unorthodox teaching and shall be classified as a heresy.”

The Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops Congress, ruling that Tulsa’s Carlton Pearson and his followers “risk the eternal destiny of their souls.”

“We can’t be like Christina Aguilera and get all attitudy. We’re supposed to be like Christ and turn the other cheek.”

Jaci Velasquez, a Christian musician, on the growing problem of Christian music piracy.

“I just had to be here to fight for the next generation and the generation after that.”

A proabortion marcher in Washington, at the “March for Women’s Lives” on April 25.

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