Welcome, Life, Sort Of, Pope Benedict

The Senate apparently doesn't want to value whatever they veiw as every human life. From the Crypt:

While Pope Benedict XVI's historic visit to Washington received wall to wall coverage, Sen. Barbara Boxer briefly held up a Senate resolution welcoming the pontiff because she objected to language about how the pope values "each and every human life."

The measure later cleared the Senate Thursday afternoon after the sponsor of the resolution, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), dropped the reference to "human life" because some Democrats saw it as a reference to abortion.

I fail to see why the phrase should have been dropped: if some Democrats admit that an abortion takes a human life, and they support abortion, then I guess they would object. But if they think a human life is something that appears at birth, then they should be able to comfort themselves that their statement to the Pope is not about anything in utero. Of course it's hard to maintain such ignorance in the face of all the facts. I'm sure the Holy Father will frame the Pelosi version for his office.