Posted on 06/06/2004 5:48:24 AM PDT by Theodore R.
Sen. Hutchison lays out stance on abortion issue before GOP
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican considered to be a potential candidate for Texas governor in 2006, said Saturday she supports a woman's right to choose to have an abortion before a fetus is viable outside of the womb.
Hutchison, speaking with news reporters after her speech to the Republican state convention, said her stance on abortion has remained consistent through the years.
"My position is I think there can be an ability for a woman, until viability, to make a choice," she said, adding that the state should have the right to impose abortion restrictions such as parental consent or notification.
Hutchison told GOP convention delegates she values "the dignity of human life." She said she opposes late-term abortions, often referred to as partial birth abortions.
"We have our differences, but we have a fierce loyalty to each other," she said in her speech.
The state Republican Party platform calls for protection of all "innocent human life" from fertilization until natural death. It urges the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion.
Hutchison's spokesman, Dave Beckwith, said the senator supports current Texas law, which requires notification of the parents of minors seeking abortion and requires a 24-hour waiting period before a woman can have an abortion.
"In my presence, she called the partial birth abortion murder ... but that's after viability," Beckwith said.
Republican Gov. Rick Perry, who would be running for a full second term for governor in 2006 when Hutchison might run, has said he opposes abortion except in the case of rape, incest or threat to the life of the mother.
Hutchison wouldn't say Saturday whether she will run against Perry.
Hutchison was at the center of a fight at the state GOP convention in San Antonio in 1996 when anti-abortion forces targeted her for defeat as a national delegate because she supports a woman's right to an abortion in some cases. She barely won election then as a delegate.
This was a complete insult to President Reagan to say this on the occasion of his death. Nice.
The problem is we've been relying on people like KBH to get us from 0 to .5 and it never budges. They tell us what we want to here, but the U.S. still has the most liberal abortion laws anywhere in the world. Even billions of our tax dollars go to pay for it, and all these people we vote for can't even cut that by $1.
We'll all have to spend some time re-educating KBH in the next 2 years. And supporting Senator Cornyn while looking for a strong pro-life replacement for Hutchison.
Other people we need to turn around or move out are the women leaders who aren't pro-life.
http://www.thewishlist.org/
""What is The WISH List?
The WISH List -- which stands for Women In the Senate and House® -- raises money to identify, train, support and elect more Republican women leaders to public office at all levels of government. WISH is America's largest fundraising network for pro-choice Republican women candidates!""
Here's the WISH list Board and Honorary Advisors, including Kay Granger form the 12th District of Texas
http://www.thewishlist.org/Board.htm
http://www.republicansforchoice.com/index.htm
One of the places to start would be to call her office this week, letting them know our disgust with the quotes in multiple newspapers which mention her and her staff.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&tab=nn&q=Hutchison+abortion+Texas&btnG=Search+News
To me, it appears that the Senator told us what we wanted to hear, then did an about face for the Press.
I've been listening closely and I've never heard her espouse anything that remotely sounds like a conservative position on any of the talking heads shows, she could just as well be Olympia Snowe from what I've heard her say.
But then for that matter Cornyn doesn't exactly set me on fire either....
Frankly, the weaseling stance of people like Hutchinson is disgusting to anyone really aware of the aliveness of the preborn, anyone who believes the alive human being innocent of any wrong should not have a 'hunting season' established for when it is 'okay to kill them'. Sen. Hutchinson is in Orrin Hatchiling's camp with support for therapeutic/research cloning and embryonic stem cell exploitation. Her vote for the Harkin amendment that codified Roe v Wade recently is another of her disgusting sellouts for 'moderacy'.
You are right about Cronyn. He certainly hasn't done anything to distinquish himself yet--but he's new, so maybe he will improve with age. This might especially happen if we stay on him enough. We have got to keep reminding these people of what we expect from them!
Marvin,
I'm afraid that the Senator, with her views on embryonic stem cell research and cloning, would be very much in favor of killing any child that can't survive on his or her own. I even wonder about her WISH for those who are born and have birth cerificates.
I've never talked to the Senator, btw. Her office (except for one nice lady who hasn't been available for the last year or so) usually tries to get me off the phone as quickly as possible and the 'replies' I get to my letters show that no one in her office ever read them.
Her office had no time for me when I was applying for the National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women. Luckily, Senator Graham's office was much more helpful and I believe I may have gotten some help from Representative Lamar Smith's office. I know that they helped me figure out who to call and write.
Cornyn is very dynamic in speeches (I've never been closer than a hundred feet from him) and I'm proud of his efforts to fight court battles in favor of parental notification, refusal of State funds for abortion, and the bills he backs in Washington, including the Partial Birth Abortion Ban.
That was EXACTLY what I thought when reading this. And actually, she now has two adopted children...a daughter, Bailey and a son, Houston.
How hypocritical. Bailey and Houston wouldn't be here if their birth mothers had expressed their "right to choose to have an abortion". Wonder if she's even remotely thought about that?
I'm afraid you're wrong.
I would hope that I am wrong. But, that's not what she said, here:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA060604.14A.GOPMain_.139e0d01e.html
Hutchison said Saturday: "It's very important that you know, regardless of what might have been in the papers or whatever, I've stayed consistent. And my position is that I think there can be an ability for a woman, until viability, to make a choice. I think the states should have the right, as they have done, to have restrictions such as parental consent or notification."
It's good that he's a dynamic speaker because if he continues to be a co-sponser with Feinstein he's going to be unemployed. Maybe he has a future giving dynamic motivational speeches.
I'm glad he's against PBA and he's done a decent job on the same sex "marriage" front but that's another no-brainer, which is exactly what he's turning out to be as a Senator, a no-brainer.
I must say I'm somewhat disappointed as I thought he was a pretty good AG.
She never said that, and you know it.
I'm sorry, I am guilty of exaggeration. But, as I said, her stance on embryonic life, cloning, and early abortion, as well as her desire to be consistent and known for consistency makes me wonder what her criteria could be except that which she gave:" And my position is that I think there can be an ability for a woman, until viability, to make a choice."
I don't understand the problem you have with the Cornyn-Feinstein bill on privacy.
http://feinstein.senate.gov/03Releases/r-piracy.htm
(Feinstein might promote a good idea sometime. There's the old saying that "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.")
Can you explain?
These people should be shunned and marginalized, never assisted in any way whatsoever... regardless of party. There is no such thing as a good person who is pro-death. No matter how nice they appear, anyone who votes to kill babies is no better than a lawful Nazi ordering innocent souls to be exterminated.
Yes, indeed, but what most Texas conservatives don't know is that "Liddy" (a nickname she is said to detest) is more conservative on social issues than is our own Senator Hutchison. It's a shame that conservatives could not have coalesced in 1993 behind either Jack Fields or Joe Barton to have stopped her Senate candidacy. John Connally was backing Fields (his daughter had some kind of personal issue with Hutchison), and William Clements was backing Barton (he had run against Ray Hutchison in the 1978 primary and had not yet made his peace with the Hutchisons). But conservatives split their votes (I went for Fields and my wife for Barton), and Hutchison was the saviour of the GOP that year. Now she is entrenched in that Senate seat for as long as she wants it.
Even after her adoption of two infants Hutchison retains her interest in abortion. She must not believe in the old logo "Adoption -- Not Abortion."
Here is a primary 2006 possible lineup:
Governor: Perry and Hutchison
Senator: Dewhurst and Strayhorn
Lt. Gov.: Jerry Patterson?
Comptroller: the pro-Hutchison Susan Combs
Agriculture: don't know
The title was copied from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, which I think is a quite interesting paper covering West Texas.
she could just as well be Olympia Snowe
Yea, she could be Olympia Snowe without the Maine Snow!
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