One of his favorite soundbites was that on the "citizen legis-LAY-tohr". Evidently, now that power corrupted him, he forgot about the 'citizen' half and he'll stay to legislate for as long as the unwashed keep re-electing him.
Huh?
Frist is physician who has stated countless times that abortion is abhorrent and should be banned. Are you confusing him with one of the New England RINOs?
Partial Birth Abortion Ban – Passage, S. 1692 (Roll Call Vote No. 340). Passage of the bill that would ban a certain late-term abortion procedure, in which the physician partially delivers the fetus before completing the abortion. Anyone convicted of performing such an abortion would be subject to a fine and up to two years in prison. The penalties would not apply if the abortion is necessary to save the mother’s life.
FRIST VOTED YES
3. Prison Abortions. S. 2500 (roll call vote 235). DeGette (D-CO) ammendment to the Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations Bill that would have permitted the use of taxpayer funds for abortion services in federal prisons.
FRIST VOTED NO
13. Banning Military Abortions, S. 2549 (Roll Call Vote No. 134). The Senate voted to kill and amendment that would have provided abortions in military hospitals.
FRIST VOTED YES
17 . Morning After Pill, HR 4577 (Roll Call Vote No. 169). The Senate refused to kill an amendment stopping the use of federal funds to distribute the “morning after” pill on school grounds.
FRIST VOTED YES TO KILL THE AMENDMENT
Pro-life physician Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) asserted that the partial-birth abortion procedure should be banned "because it is needlessly risky and dangerous for the woman, because it is inhumane and painful to the fetus, because it is absolutely unnecessary and because it is ethically unacceptable."