Senate candidate Monica Wehby tells GOP forum that abortion is 'personal decision'

Oregon Live ^ | January 24, 2014 at 4:09 PM | Jeff Mapes

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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. 

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"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

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Oregon Senate Candidate Monica Wehby is pro-abortion Ping!

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Senate candidate Monica Wehby tells GOP forum that abortion is 'personal decision'

Yeah, it's a personal decision, but I doubt she told them it's murder too.

[steve86]

Like you or someone said: She is a “Democrat Trojan Horse masquerading as a Republican”.

[hinckley buzzard]

"...personally pro-life, but..."

What is a liberal abortionist doing running for a republican nom?

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Toast.
That is if I were an Oregonian.

[Louis Foxwell]

The only way the government gets out of the abortion business is to outlaw all abortion. That makes it a personal and very private decision, right?

[goldstategop]

I’m all for getting the government out of the bedroom... as long it gets out of our kitchens, bathrooms and living rooms as well!

[Fledermaus]

Cowardly stance.

[Vendome]

Nice not knowing yuh ....

[wonkowasright]

[Fungi]

Wow! Hold me back, a wolf in sheep’s clothing? What next?
Any suggestions? This is another phony, saying all the right things until you get a peek into her heart and soul. I can wait until this is clarified, but it does not look good. I hope I am wrong.

[FlingWingFlyer]

...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.

Ummm. What about the baby's decision to be guaranteed the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness when it clashes with a "woman's" decision to have "one" (A BABY)? Who speaks for an innocent human being not yet able to speak for himself/herself?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yuppers, huge blindspot.

[goldstategop]

I think libertarianism should be principled. But liberals are statists not libertarians.

[Jim from C-Town]

I feel the same way about bank robbery. I am personally against it but I fee it is s decision between the robber and the financial institution and not between the federal government and the robber.

[GeronL]

Bump

[GeronL]

Pontius Pilot was personally against crucifying Jesus too, but ...

[Salvation]

She will come around, I think after everything she has been through.

Wouldn’t she be better than Merkley?

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