Who voted against anti-dogfighting legislation this spring, and why? NPR reports:
Most of the bill's opponents say they aren't fans of dogfighting butare conservative, pro-life Republicans. Iowa Rep. Steve King from Iowasays it's wrong for the federal government to criminalize pit bulltrafficking while allowing legal abortion.
"Myvote says that human life needs to be elevated and stay above animallife. And I think it devalues all human life, when you set the life ofan animal up above that of a human," King says.
It's one thing to say that human lives are more valuable than animal lives. It's another thing to think an early-term fetus is morally like an adult human. And it's a totally different and completely insane thing to think that you can alleviate the badness of injuries to humans by permitting wanton cruelty to animals.
