Close SCRAPBOOK readers should not have been surprised last week when Pat Robertson seemed to endorse coerced abortions in China. When last quoted on this page two years ago, the Christian Coalition leader was an early cheerleader for the Chinese government’s Falun Gong crackdown. Never mind that the “anti-cult” crackdown sent lots of Robertson’s fellow Pentecostals and other Christians into Chinese prisons.
Robertson quickly clarified his statement that the Chinese government was “doing what they have to do.” “I regret,” he said, “that my unrehearsed comments on ‘Wolf Blitzer’ were not spoken with sufficient clarity to communicate my lifelong opposition to voluntary and forced abortion as a means of population control.”
That’s reassuring. In the future we’ll only pay attention to the comments Robertson rehearses.
