Posted on 11/25/2007 10:26:20 AM PST by pissant
(snicker)
“He’s currently just below Rudy on my list of favorites.”
How does one get below Rudy? What in particular...? The racism assertion?
I support and have always supported passage of a constitutional amendment to protect the right to life. As President, I will fight for passage of this amendment. My convictions regarding the sanctity of life have always been clear and consistent, without equivocation or wavering. I believe that Roe v. Wade should be over-turned.
I applaud the Supreme Court's recent decision in Gonzales v. Cathcart forbidding the gruesome practice of partial birth abortion. While I am optimistic that we are turning the tide in favor of life, we still have many battles ahead of us to protect those who cannot protect themselves, and so it is vital that we elect a pro-life President.
No candidate has a stronger record on the sanctity of life than I do. I have always been actively and aggressively pro-life. I first became politically active when I helped pass Arkansas' Unborn Child Amendment, which requires the state to do whatever it can to protect life.
As Governor, I used that Amendment to pass pro-life legislation. The many pro-life laws I got through my Democrat legislature are the accomplishments that give me the most pride and personal satisfaction. I banned partial birth abortion, I required parental notification, I required that a woman give informed consent before having an abortion, I required that a woman be told her baby will experience pain and be given the option of anesthesia for her baby, I allowed a woman to have her baby and leave the child safely at a hospital, and I made it a crime for an unborn child to be injured or murdered during an attack on his mother.
What I accomplished as Governor proves that there is a lot more that a pro-life President can do than wait for a Supreme Court vacancy, and I will do everything I can to promote a pro-life agenda and pass pro-life legislation. If I'm saddled with a Democrat Congress, I'll veto any pro-abortion legislation they pass. I will staff all relevant positions with pro-life appointees. I will use the bully pulpit to change hearts and minds. I have no desire to throw women in jail, I just want us to stop throwing babies in the garbage.
To me, life doesn't begin at conception and end at birth. Every child deserves a quality education, first-rate health care, decent housing in a safe neighborhood, and clean air and drinking water. Every child deserves the opportunity to discover and use his God-given gifts and talents.
With respect to stem cells, I support federal funding of research using existing stem cell lines. I do not believe in creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it. I'm encouraged by recent discoveries showing that stem cells from the umbilical cord offer great promise.
“unalienable rights”
Hmm...those apply to human beings. The question is, “When does a fetus become a living human?” You will find there is very little support in America for the idea that a fertilized egg is just as fully a human being as someone walking around the town.
I could pretty cheerfully argue in favor of a law requiring an attempted delivery from 20 weeks on. I consider a first trimester abortion morally wrong, but don’t think it is a sufficiently clear case to call it first degree murder.
Lack of honesty.
The US got along for almost 200 years prior to Roe without a finding that the Constitution protected a fertilized egg as a person in the meaning of the Constitution. As I recall nobody even brought the idea up.
So are you in favor of enforcing this “right” by means of a federal law, a judicial decision or an amendment?
Everyone should remember all the questionable statements GWB made regarding abortion during his campaign. Huckabee and Thompson are both at least as pro-life as Bush. Perhaps not for the same reasons, as with Thompson, but I think they will bring the same results.
I agree with you, as does Duncan Hunter, who has sponsored legislation to recognize the constitutional rights of the unborn for decades.
But this was posted because Huckster has been criticizing Thompson’s ‘federalist’ position on the subject, and lo and behold, he had the same view up til 2006, at least. Huck is a used car salesman.
Thanks. Good to be back.
I like how you used that ul li html code to post the bullet points, very impressive.
Folks back then couldn't imagine that anyone could butcher a baby, or offer support to those who did.
Times change, obviously. And so, the unalienable right to life, the first principle, the cornerstone, of American liberty, must be enforced against these ghouls. Otherwise, this republic is for all intents and purposes dead. A building can't stand for long without it's foundation, you see.
Still I will vote for him if he wins the primary. That doesn't mean I want him to win. But at this sad time in election history, I guess he is my very distant second choice. Very very very distant. It could have been Thompson except for the marriage issue and the snub to values voters....and really, I'm still steamed over CFR.
This has been explained to you dozens of times. Even after Fred received the NRTL endorsement, you still don't get it.
You don't support overturning Roe v Wade and you don't support a Human Life Amendment. You'd rather wait around until there are five activist justices on the Supreme Court who agree with your notion that the Founders had the unborn in mind when they wrote the Constitution. That is equivalent to the liberal activists on the high court who gave us Roe v Wade in the first place.
The best hope we pro-lifers have is to overturn Roe v Wade and send it back to the purview of the states. This would allow the American people to decide through their votes, what laws they want for each state. Truth be told, most states have existing laws on the books that restrict abortions. Those laws have been there since before RvW became the law of the land. If RvW is done away with as the national policy of the US government, abortion restrictions would automatically go into effect.
“He’s currently just below Rudy on my list of favorites”
Yep!
Oops. Maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned Thompson at all.
Whatever it takes. All U.S. officials, in all three branches, take an oath to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution. And so, they all need to act to end the holocaust if they have any intention of keeping that oath.
I've decided anyone supporting Hucky is a relative.
Thanks, I've been looking for that one!
Once again, you mischaracterize my position. Quite dishonest of you.
I do support overturning Roe, and I would most certainly support any Human Life Amendment that was predicated on the self-evident personhood of the unborn and the equal protection of the laws for all persons.
Where I differ from Fred Thompson, Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney and YOU is that I don't believe that any state has the right to revoke the unalienable rights to life and liberty.
If they can, those rights aren't "unalienable," are they? No, they're not. They're subject to the whims of every cynical and selfish politician who comes along...
You are a liar. I have repeatedly refuted your lies, yet you continue to do it.
Abortions have been documented for thousands of years.
They were no laws in the U.S. against abortion until the 1820s.
The STATES had outlawed most abortions until the FEDERAL government overturned them all, yet you want to give control to the Federal Government.
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