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Al Franken is running for the U.S. Senate against pro-life incumbent Senator Norm Coleman Franken’s positions on the issues many Minnesotans hold in high regard—health care and protection of unborn babies, for example—are alarming. While lately, Franken’s comedic talent and taste have been front and center, his anti-life beliefs are anything but funny.

Franken’s anti-life, pro-abortion positions revealed

“My number one domestic priority is to get us to universal health care,” Franken said in a written statement to Minnesota Public Radio. “There are several feasible options being used around the world … including a single-payer system and my priority is to get to universal health care as quickly as possible.” Universal health care and single-payer systems always lead to rationing of care, most frequently for the people who need it most: the elderly, disabled, and otherwise vulnerable.

On the other hand, Sen. Coleman supports the pro-life position that ensures rationing of care or intentional denial of treatment do not occur.
It doesn’t stop there.

Destroying human life

Franken supports destroying human embryos for science’s sake. “I support embryonic stem cell research,” Franken says. “The blastocysts used for this … research contain only a few cells. … And by the way, I’d like to see this research happening at the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic”

Blastocysts are more than “only a few cells.” Blastocyst is the name for a tiny human at four to 14 days after conception. While a blastocyst may not closely resemble a newborn baby, it is exactly what a human looks like at that stage of development.

Franken supports human cloning

That’s not the only thing Franken is wrong about. He also supports the University of Minnesota embryo-killing experiments. Currently, the University is conducting embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) and human cloning attempts with private funding, but that’s not enough for Franken. He wants taxpayers to foot the bill.

For a number of years there have been attempts at the state legislature to legalize human cloning and allow taxpayer funding for destructive ESCR at the University of Minnesota. Most recently, Sen. Richard Cohen, D-St. Paul, and Rep. Phyllis Kahn, D-Minneapolis, were the authors of this legislation, known as the Kahn-Cohen Cloning Bill. The last thing Minnesota needs is someone in Washington, D.C., advocating for human cloning and the destruction of human embryos funded at taxpayers’ expense. Fortunately, Sen. Coleman does not support the destructive research.
And it gets even worse.

Abortion-on-demand advocate

Following in the tradition of Bill Clinton, Franken says that he believes “abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.” He’s not fooling anyone. For starters, abortion isn’t safe for women or unborn babies. In Minnesota alone, abortion-related complications have risen more than 45% in the past five years.

Every year in Minnesota, abortionists perform approximately 14,000 abortions. These abortions, coupled with the more than 1.2 million abortions performed every year across the country, makes abortion anything but rare. The Democrat Party removed “rare” from its abortion platform this year, and Franken wants to keep it that way.

By vowing to keep abortion legal, Franken wants the nation to continue down the abortion-on-demand, for-any-reason, at-any-stage-of-pregnancy, with-taxpayer-funding path just as every other radical, pro-abortion politician has before him. In 2006, Franken helped raise money for the NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota Election Fund, an extremist pro-abortion group looking to elect candidates who will oppose protections for unborn babies and their mothers.

Endorsed by radical pro-abortion groups

Franken is endorsed by nearly every major pro-abortion organization including the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and the NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota Election Fund. “I know that he [Franken] will work tirelessly to protect a woman’s right to choose,” says Linnea House, Executive Director of NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota.

In stark contrast, Sen. Coleman is a true friend to unborn babies and for many years has been supportive of the efforts of pro-life organizations, including National Right to Life and MCCL.

Franken promotes culture of death

Franken wants to perpetuate the culture of death agenda by appearing to represent the values of Minnesotans. But he doesn’t. Franken is just another radical, pro-abortion, anti-life candidate whose latest role is playing an average Minnesotan. That’s no joke (and sure isn’t funny). What Minnesotans deserve is someone we can count on, like pro-life Senator Norm Coleman, who will stand up for life, from the earliest to end stages, and will work to restore protections for human life.

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