Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick chose a close friend of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy to fill his seat in the Senate. Patrick picked Paul Kirk, who was the chairman of the Democratic Party in the late 1980s, to replace Kennedy, the pro-life advocate turned champion of abortion.Kirk said today that he would be a “voice and vote for [Kennedy’s] causes and his constituents.”
For the health care debate, that means another vote for the Kennedy or Baucus bills, both of which include abortion funding and rationing of health care for seniors and are vigorously opposed by pro-life groups.
In making the announcement of his selection for a replacement, Governor Patrick acknowledged that he was entrusting what Kennedy called the “cause of my life” – health care reform -- to Kirk.
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