Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1448757,00.html
In an opinion piece in yesterday's New York Times, John Danforth, a former senator and US ambassador to the United Nations, writes: “Republicans have transformed our party into the political arm of conservative Christians.”
“I am and have always been pro-life,” he wrote. “But the only explanation for legislators comparing cells in a petri dish to babies in the womb is the extension of religious doctrine into statutory law.”