Karen Handel is she really a conservative? (Part 1)

by Peach Tree

Peach State Voice (Atlanta)

June 4, 2010





This is the first of a three part series to look at Ms. Karen Handel's position on the issues as it pertains to her race for Governor of Georgia in 2010. Ms. Handel professes on her website; "Karen is a lifelong conservative and Republican." The Peach State Voice will be the judge whether Ms. Handel is a Conservative, as for being a Republican we stipulate.

Part 1 - Abortion - Karen's Handel's vision for Georgia.

Part 2 - States Rights - Will she fight hard for all Georgia's citizens?

Part 3 - Economy - Does Karen Handel know Austrian economics?

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Part 1 - Karen Handel's vision for Georgia.

"Karen is pro-life. As a matter of law she believes society may allow for exceptions in cases of rape, incest or when there is a real threat to the mother’s life." - Karen Handel website.

The Declaration of Independence, our Founding document, clearly states that every person has a GOD given right to Life and Liberty. Conservatives believe the United States Constitution, our governing document, embraces the philosophy and ideas of our Founding to nurture our society. Abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution, therefore it violates the very principle that GOD bestowed upon all human beings expressed in The Declaration of Independence and enshrined in the United States Constitution - the right to Life and Liberty. If you reject this truth, you are not a Conservative.

What does it mean when Ms. Handel makes the statement about abortion in which she "believes society may allow for exceptions in cases of rape, incest or when there is a real threat to the mother's life." It means that Karen Handel believes in a society that picks and chooses what human beings have the right to Life and Liberty. We fought a great Civil War to end this notion that one group of people whether by skin color or nature of birth were free. We fought a great war in Europe to end the slaughter of millions of innocent people of particular religions and ethnic backgrounds. In the end, our elected representatives must respect the value of all human life.

"Regrettably, we live at a time when some persons do not value all human life. They want to pick and choose which individuals have value." - Ronald Reagan

Perhaps the most eloquent Conservative thoughts on abortion were penned by Ronald Reagan in The Human Life Review (Spring of 1983) in this article Abortion and Conscience of the Nation. President Reagan explains the real meaning of abortion. President Reagan concludes; "We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life — the unborn — without diminishing the value of all human life." Ms. Handel believes those lives categorized 'conceived during the crime of rape and incest' are somehow less valuable than those conceived in the privacy of a couples bedroom. The crimes of rape and incest are punishable by society with stiff jail terms, yet Ms. Handel would also condemn the most innocent in this crime, the child, to death. President Reagan warned us; "every citizen needs to recognize that the real issue is whether to affirm and protect the sanctity of all human life, or to embrace a social ethic where some human lives are valued and others are not." What lawmaker, what doctor, what citizen has the right to condemn one child to death and allow another to live?



The concept of abortion-on-demand no longer sits well with the general population of the United States. A recent Gallup poll in June 2010 shows that more Americans now identify themselves as pro-life versus pro-choice. Forty-seven percent of Americans self-identify as pro-life, as compared to 45% pro-choice.


Still the number of abortion providers in the State of Georgia has increased from 26 to 34 from FY2000 to FY2005. The number of abortion slaughter houses has increased 31% across Georgia, while the number across the nation has fallen 2%. Exit interviews of aborting females of reproductive age indicate that 4.9% were performed under the guise of 'protecting the mother's health/rape or incest' not to protect the mother's life. Of the 33,180 abortions performed in Georgia in 2005, 1,626 children were deemed valueless and destroyed for reasons to 'protect the health of the mother/rape or incest' and another 31,554 for all other reasons.

Ron Paul, MD, Congressman from the State of Texas has delivered 4,000 babies during his medical career and he says; "People ask an expectant mother how her baby is doing. They do not ask how her fetus is doing, or her blob of tissue, or her parasite. But that is what her baby becomes as soon as the child is declared to be unwanted."

I leave you with this quote by Ronald Reagan.

"What, then, is the real issue? I have often said that when we talk about abortion, we are talking about two lives — the life of the mother and the life of the unborn child. Why else do we call a pregnant woman a mother? I have also said that anyone who doesn't feel sure whether we are talking about a second human life should clearly give life the benefit of the doubt. If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn."

Karen Handel's vision for the State of Georgia means picking one group of children for destruction over another; deeming one category of human life as valueless and worthy of destruction, and overseeing the ever expanding apparatus of abortion in the State of Georgia. On this issue Karen Handel is NO Conservative.

Next week - State's Rights - We look at Ms. Handel's knowledge and understanding of the United States Constitution as it pertains to the 10th Amendment/States Rights. Can Karen Handel stand-up to special interests and the Federal government to protect the health and welfare of all Georgia's citizens, not just a chosen few?