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The speech at the Right to Life dinner was a key test of his pro-life credentials for those in the party who doubt Mr. Steele's big tent explanations for why he helped found a prominent pro-choice GOP organization and joined another.
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But Mr. Steele, the keynote speaker for the Evansville Right to Life annual event, repeated his often-stated opposition to abortion, called for Roe vs. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion a constitutional right, "a travesty of legal reasoning"
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"I am proud to join you in saying that I am pro-life, always have been, and always will be," he told the audience . . .
Thread by me.
Port of Spain, Trinidad (LifeNews.com) -- International pro-abortion advocates from Planned Parenthood appear to have been unable to promote abortion at the recent Summit of the Americas meeting. Leading pro-life advocates were concerned they would team up with Obama officials to promote abortion using coded phrases.
Marie Smith, the director of the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues, previously told LifeNews.com that International Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion organizations might insert pro-abortion language into the Summit's Declaration of Commitment.
Abortion advocates regularly work to get phrases like "reproductive health" and "reproductive rights" into UN and international documents and then later construe those terms as including abortion. . .
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