Posted on 04/21/2014 8:29:23 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Portland pediatric neurosurgeon Monica Wehby, continuing to separate herself from the four other Republican Senate candidates on the abortion issue, told a GOP forum in Baker City that she was personally pro-life but did not want the government involved in a woman's decision on whether to have one.
“I believe this is a personal decision between a women and her family, not a woman and the federal government,” said Wehby, according to the Baker City Herald.
Wehby and the four other Republican candidates -- state Rep. Jason Conger of Bend, Portland attorney Tim Crawley, former Linn County Chair Jo Rae Perkins and Salem information technology consultant Mark Callahan -- appeared at a Wednesday night forum. They are competing for the GOP nomination for the seat held by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.
Her comments defending abortion rights were stronger than those that she made when she entered the race and told The Oregonian, “The Supreme Court ruled that...abortion is supposed to be safe and legal. And that’s where we are. I don’t think this should be used as a litmus test for people.”
Conger has been endorsed by Oregon Right to Life, the state's major anti-abortion group. Conger and Wehby are the two candidates who have raised the most money and appear to be the front-runners in the primary race.
Don’t start the trolling, libertarianism is pro-abortion and pro-gay and everything else listed in post 24.
If libertarians were conservatives, they wouldn’t be libertarians.
If you are posting about me, then ping me, especially when you are making up so much nonsense.
What I pointed out to you, is that almost everyone with your anti-God, anti-Christian, pro-abortion views, are lefty voters already and always have been, and always will be.
You cannot throw away the conservatives and expect to win over the atheists, they will never abandon the far left.
A lying tongue is an abomination to the Lord.
You are right, and that was my point. The hard right took their ball and went home when their guy did not get on the ticket. They sat out the election and watched the chosen republican loose. The did not support him that is why he lost.
I am pro abortion when it is a child who was raped and is pregnant. I am pro abortion when the mothers physical health is truly at risk. You see I do not believe that I have the right to play god and make those decisions for that family. It is tough enough without do-gooder outside religious zealots sticking their nose in a horrible situation.
I am not pro abortion for birth control or convenience reasons. I do not agree with all the mental health reasons they come up with. The physical health of the woman or in rape situations is where my personal lines are. I strongly believe in those two situations I have absolutely no right to stick my nose in their business.
Libertarianism is an abomination to the Lord.
1.4 Abortion
Recognizing that abortion is a sensitive issue and that people can hold good-faith views on all sides, we believe that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration.
1.3 Personal Relationships
Sexual orientation, preference, gender, or gender identity should have no impact on the government’s treatment of individuals, such as in current marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.
Is that why churches are so quiet?
Who cares what you think, read the article and the abortion beliefs of the person being discussed.
The person you got on the thread to defend, is pro-abortion, which is against your party’s platform.
No I'm one of those many people out there who scare the crap out of both the hard right and hard left. I'm a true moderate.
The far left and right share one thing. They can not tolerate anyone who does not play for one of the two political teams. The left and right both must capture the middle moderate or independent voters to win anything.
The statistical truth is that the majority of voters are neither far right nor far left they are in the middle third of that 180 degree graph. When we are out there making up our own minds and not paying attention to the propaganda it scares the crap out of both teams.
There is a mathematical truth out there that is an inevitability. Sooner or later there will be a third political party in national politics. It will be a moderate party and it will win. It will be a self identified Moderate party, not pretenders from the right or left, and that party will not loose.
The far right and far left will never be able to form any kind of coalition to defeat the moderate party. When this happens both extremes know they are history for many decades.
Since I do not stand quietly when attacked by the left or the right and I speak up and call them on their words, I scare both sides.
My truth is that Global warming is crap, I have a right to my guns and will not allow that to be degraded, God does not run the real world greedy men do, I'm against abortion except in two cases but in those two cases in is not my business, and last if your party wants to lie about others those who say those things or push those things are liars and can never be trusted. They are out of the running.
I like dealing in facts, provable facts. Don't give me some convoluted non proven theory about glo-bull warming. Just more lies. But do not give me something and back it because God wants it either. God never said those words to me so I call bull on that too.
I believe in being a moderate. There are millions out there just like me. Not too far in the furture both political parties are going to have to deal with us.
No one is afraid you, they just pity you.
“”The left and right both must capture the middle moderate or independent voters to win anything.””
Evidently not, Obama overwhelmingly lost the independents, your Mitt Romney did smashingly well, hugely well with the moderates and independents.
INFOGRAPHIC: Obama Lost Independent Vote In Almost Every Swing State
The president only won the independent vote in one battleground state: North Carolina.
“Things looked very different for Obama in 2008, when independent voters came out in huge numbers to support him.
Just before Election Day, the Wall Street Journal reported those polling numbers had hardly changed, with Romney overwhelmingly leading among independent voters across the country. Republican pollster Bill McInteruff told the Journal the Democrats were “really flirting with trouble if you’re losing independents by this margin.””
Thanks. Is Monica W the establishment backed candidate?
Those ‘post-2000 stars’ remind me of something...
Meanwhile, in the communist/pagan northeast; we are being dealt a pro-DEATH Republican candidate for Governor in soviet Red Hampshire. Sitting out another election, I guess.
The slaughter of the innocents.
What a cold hearted coward this advocate for murder is.
Then the government needs to quit paying for things like pre-natal care and WIC if having a child is a personal decision that the government needs to stay out of.
Libertarians are libertarians, and support abortion with zero limitations, restraints, or time limits.
Of course their are libertarians who stray from purity on the issues, even libertarian Noam Chomsky strays from libertarian purity, but libertarianism is pro-abortion, gay marriage, open borders, the whole left wing agenda on social issues and foreign policy and military issues.
Since you are a libertarian, I guess you don’t want to hear where you guys are on child porn?
Since you are a libertarian, I guess you don’t want to hear where you guys are on child porn?
You may try to indict a whole broad philosophy because of a few loons who use the same name, but that’s as lame as condemning Christianity because of those Christians who have committed murder.
Obviously, child porn violates the liberty of the child, and prohibiting its distribution furthers that interest.
No, libertarianism is a movement, and they have official positions, they haven’t taken an official position on child porn yet, but so far, they have signaled that they will stay true to their libertarian principles and beliefs.
No, libertarianism is a movement, and they have official positions, they haven’t taken an official position on child porn yet, but so far, they have signaled that they will stay true to their libertarian principles and beliefs.
If you are going to to argue with a straw man named “They”, then please define exactly who “They” are. Because most who agree with libertarian principles don’t subscribe to whatever puny straw man you’re arguing with.
If you’re talking about the Libertarian Party of America (or whatever they call themselves, then come out and say it, so we can know that it’s that tiny irrelevant minority you have such an issue with, not the vast bulk of those of us who share the principles of liberty.
The party the libertarians founded to put their beliefs into political terms represents libertarianism, and NEVER disagrees with libertarian principles.
Your trying to rewrite libertarianism by your own personal beliefs, or whatever nonsense propaganda you want to sell on a conservative forum doesn’t matter.
There is no disagreement between libertarianism and it’s party.
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