Scott Brown for abortion?
God will be the final judge,
but right now it's not looking too good for Brown!
Posted on 02/01/2010 7:04:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Scott Brown of Massachusetts may have taken away the Democrats’ filibuster-proof Senate majority, but the Republican senator-elect isn’t your typical conservative.
“I am a fiscal conservative. And when it comes to issues affecting people's pockets, and pocketbooks, and wallets, I'll be with the Republicans if they are in fact pushing those initiatives," Brown said in an interview set to air Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
But there are issues on which he might break with his party – most notably, abortion.
“You are pro-choice, yes?” Barbara Walters asked Brown in the interview.
“Yes,” Brown replied, explaining later that he feels the issue “is best handled between a woman and her doctor and her family.”
But Brown isn’t your typical pro-choice politician either.
“Roe v. Wade is the law of the land, but I think we need to do more to reduce the amount of abortions,” he stated. “And the difference between me and maybe others is that I'm very – I'm against partial-birth abortions. I'm against federal funding of abortions. And I believe in a strong parental consent notification law.”
Last week, Brown became the first Republican to win a Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, defeating the state’s attorney general, Martha Coakley, with 52 percent of the votes. His win gives the GOP enough members to block legislation, including the current health care reform bill, in the Senate.
In his interview with Walters, Brown said, “Everyone really is the 41st senator.”
“And what it means is that now there will be full and fair debate. And there will be no more closed – behind closed doors actions,” he added.
Brown had expected to be sworn in sometime this past week, but the timing of his swearing-in still remains in question.
The waiting period for the arrival of absentee ballots has not yet been waived despite the five-point margin with which Brown won.
Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin has sent a letter to the Senate clerk declaring Brown the unofficial winner of the seat.
What a bullseye!
And it's the same with deficits and earmarks and homosexual agenda. Let a pubbie congress or president preside over huge deficits and we've got a gazillion excuses.
I'm tired of playing the "explain away our side's faults as if they don't exist" game.
Rinos lie. And when cornered, they really, really lie.
Good to see that he’s opposed to sucking out the brains of children who are part-way out of the womb. Very honorable of him.
If you agree that PBA is wrong, at what point during the pregnancy does it go from abortion being right, to it being wrong?
So then murder is fine and no business of yours or the governments as long as its between me and God? Is that what you're saying?
Outstanding question!
The liberal answer: its wrong when the child is viable outside the womb (which for most means when the child is born).
FReeper xzins is right, you hit the bullseye. FWIW, I've always said Scott Brown would make a good Democrat. Whether he has an "R" or a "D" after his name, I see little difference. Pro-Roe, Pro-abort, Pro-RomneyCare, Pro-man caused global warming, Pro-state sponsored gay marriage rights. Not to mention his willingness to work and vote with the Dems, willing to work with John Kerry, calling fat Teddy Kennedy a "great guy", making robo calls for McCain and campaigning with Rudy Giuliani, Bill Weld and Mitt Romney at his side.
Scot Brown is no conservative... he is a northeast liberal-rino.
The same way jumping on a grenade isn’t suicide when you’re trying to save people.
Except that in this case, the people around you die because the lesser of two evils still stabs everyone in the back.
Is Scott Brown a romneybot?
Could very well be.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta would have never succumbed to the life of a politician. She served the poor and God, only.
You are a very confused person if you believe one person murdering another person represents liberty and conservatism.
Uh, you might wanna check the soles of your shoes, dunblak. I think you might have just stepped in somethin’. heh heh ;)
Yea, the problem with the abortion issue is that not everyone agrees about when life begins. Everyone I know is totally against partial-birth abortion, but not everyone I know agrees on abortion done in the earliest stage of conception. Lots of women don’t appreciate being told what they can and cannot do with their bodies. I can understand that and even respect (for lack of better word) that in spite of my pro-life position. It ain’t easy, but I can’t hardly defend personal freedoms only when it suits my own morality.
It would make sense that a “genuine conservative” would believe in respecting the personal rights of others. Unfortunately, this subject is so wrought with emotions on both sides that it seems to me that this argument will continue long after we’re both dead and gone.
He is a fiscal conservative.
"America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters, and, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign" (Mother Theresa -- "Notable and Quotable," Wall Street Journal, 2/25/94, p. A14). The legacy of abortion perpetuates it - denial.
Great poster. Cuts through the lie that it’s just bio-mass.
He's not doing a very good job, Myth at least pretends to be a pro-life conservative.
Brown is a pro-abortion, gun-grabbing, man-made global warming-believing liberal who claims to oppose Obamacare (the fact that he voted for Romneycare indicates that he could probably be convinced to support Obamacare under the right circumstances).
Now, I've heard all of the whimpering RINO-enablers who claim, "Brown is the best we could hope for, a conservative could never win in Massachusetts." But, consider this: Brown's opponent portrayed him as a pro-life conservative, the media portrayed him as a pro-life conservative, Brown's supporters portrayed him as a pro-life conservative and, despite this, Brown won by five point. That means that a genuine pro-life conservative could have won and if a pro-life conservative can win in Massachusetts that means they can win ANYWHERE.
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