“On abortion, he is one of many senators who vote pro-life. The difference is that he is personally responsible for making sure a lot of these votes occur in the first place: He was an architect of the effort to ban partial-birth abortion, a strategy that energized the pro-life movement and allowed it to go on the political offensive.”
http://www.heymiller.com/2010/08/the-fate-of-rick/
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Differences between having a pro-life POTUS, or an anti-life POTUS:
“Soon after taking office, Obama took two actions in line with pledges made during his election campaign:
— He restored federal funding to the UNFPA, signing legislation containing a $50 million contribution to the agency. President Bush had defunded the UNFPA since 2002, invoking the 1985 “Kemp-Kasten amendment” which prohibits funding for any agency that “supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.” Bush’s action deprived the UNFPA of a total of $244 million over the following years.
— Obama also rescinded the Mexico City Policy, a ban on funding for international health groups that perform or promote abortions. Dubbed the “global gag rule” by opponents, the regulation was instituted by President Reagan in 1984, reversed by President Clinton in 1993, and revived by President Bush in 2001.”
more http://cnsnews.com/news/article/white-house-must-prove-its-opposition-ch
Father Pavone wrote a more thorough article, but I can’t find it right now. But yes, we do need more TRUE pro-lifers in politics.
“* The fighter: Put simply, almost nobody is more willing to engage in a political fight than Santorum. He’s already mixing things up in the GOP primary, hitting Mitt Romney for the health care bill that Romney signed as governor of Massachusetts and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels for his social issues “truce.”.”