According to the National Right to Life Committee's very own pro-life ratings, Fred Thompson did not get a 100% rating.
Fred does not have a 100% pro-life voting record. His voting record, according to Project Vote Smart's list of his ratings from National Right to Life, are:
And according to National Right to Life Committee's own ratings:
If you average the ratings reported by Project Vote Smart, you get only an 81.6% pro-life rating.
If you average the ratings reported directly by the National Right to Life Commitee, you get only a 66% rating.
Wow...over the years his ratings actually got WORSE.
HOWEVER,
I can be perfect 100% down the line on any issue you want, even abortion, but if I can’t reach enough people or manage to gain a platform such as the Presidency to further our cause, then I might as well be 0% for all those babies being ripped from the womb right now.
Politics is about money. Sad, yes, but true.
You know from the record that many of Fred’s votes that may stray in context were done so on legal grounds. He understands that we are a nation of laws and emotions can further damage a cause.
When you have Tony Perkins and Karen Cross both saying he is solidly pro life, when you see his OVERALL record and see his speech and reaction at national Right to Life, well it is clear that he is pro life.
On the issue has a good wrap:
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Fred_Thompson_Abortion.htm
Ont thing I find interesting here though. You guys are digging in the way back machine to try and paint FDT as not being pro life, and really seem to be working the mid nineties. Yet I read this about Darla St. Martin in 1994 saying FDT is pro life;
http://www.spectator.org/blogger.asp?BlogID=6017
It also explains in that piece why he does not have a pristine voting record at National Right to Life. If the people in the trenches every day, putting there sweat and tears into the Pro life fight like him, I think it is fair to take all at face value.
BTW, 107th congress was on one vote, the military abortion issue. So it is skewed a bit.