Posted on 11/04/2007 1:38:41 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
Fred Thompson told Tim Russert on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that he DOES NOT support a Human Life amendment. That position is part of the GOP platform. Here’s what the 2004 GOP platform says:
"We must keep our pledge to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence. That is why we say the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and we endorse legislation to make it clear that the 14th Amendment's protections apply to unborn children. Our purpose is to have legislative and judicial protection of that right against those who perform abortions." Here’s what Thompson said about it lifted from today’s Meet The Press transcript:
MR. RUSSERT: Let me ask you about an issue very important in your party’s primary process, and that’s abortion.
MR. THOMPSON: Mm-hmm.
MR. RUSSERT: This is the 2004 Republican Party platform, and here it is: “We say the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution,” “we endorse legislation to make it clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children. Our purpose is to have legislative and judicial protection of that right against those who perform abortions.” Could you run as a candidate on that platform, promising a human life amendment banning all abortions?
MR. THOMPSON: No.
MR. RUSSERT: You would not?
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The ‘nuance’ is that it is not the business of the Fed Gov.
Why should they have any more right to live than their innocent unborn victims?
we need solutions now but there is no reason to change the GOP platform. especially when the whole pro-life platform is being challenged by rudy
You sound a little sick in the head with that post.
Did you miss the part where YOU typed "crossing state lines"?
The Federalist position is letting STATES make laws banning such transport.
States cannot forbid people from leaving the state to do something that is legal in another state. Otherwise, driving to Nevada for a quick romp at the Bunny Ranch would be impossible. It would also be illegal to go to another state to marry someone younger than you can in your own state (13 in some states, 17+ in others, if I recall correctly... and parental permission also factors into the age calculations).
They just automatically throw that in an attempt to make you look like a nut : )
The topic was not illegal aliens. You injected that into a discussion of the Constitution and abortion.
Protecting life is nonsense?
Gotcha. Its a delicate issue and one that won’t be resolved until we change the hearts and minds of more Americans.
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and yet nobody is doing that. An ad campaign against abortion can be effective just like the ones against smoking. The campaign organizers would be paid more based on whether stats showed a reduction in abortion
That A can become B does not mean A = B.
What does "naturalized" citizens mean to you?
OK ...
As a society, we should do whatever we can to protect innocent life. It doesn’t get any more innocent than people who haven’t even been born yet, and anybody who would kill such a person should be treated just like someone who murders any other member of society. Sorry if that sounds a little sick to you.
right, if born and naturalized doesn’t protect unborn from murder then it doesn’t protect unnaturalized citizens from murder either.
It looks like they treat it as a joke. I swear I hear "states rights" in regards to slavery also.
editor-surveyor wrote: “Protecting life is nonsense?”
No, but making it a federal crime to have an abortion in all circumstances is.
They are busy trying to unravel themselves from that miscue : )
Can you answer this question?
Should be repeated over and over.
I personally agree with Fred on this and the Marriage Amendment issue, but I can't believe the flip flopping of Fred supporters (not Fred but his supporters) on this issue.
The abortionist kills the child.
He is a lawyer....Vandy. They don’t just hand those out to doofusses
however....I fear without something beyond Roe being overturned we will be in perpetual lawyer induced hell everywhere due to jurisdictional friction and overlap.
it happens that way with anything else seems
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